Something is waiting for the Mortal City medical examiner in her autopsy room ... something that is not quite dead ... and not quite alive. In a horrifying night it will lead her on a quest to discover the origins of a plague that is killing off the enigmatic Drones, a plague that threatens to wipe out every man, woman and child in Mortal City. She has only 24 hours to solve the riddle of the Ymir phage.
Because she is infected. ...
From a furious battle with sky pirates and a zeppelin to a mysterious woman who shuns light and a megalomaniac with a nuclear bomb, "The Uninvited" takes you on an explosive jaunt across an urban apocalypse in a race against time to defeat the most insidious weapon of mass destruction ever devised.
DEL STONE JR. is a professional science fiction/horror writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary horror field, but has also published science fiction. Del's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net and Sex Macabre. He has also been published Del's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella "Roadkill," a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics. Del's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runnerup for the Bram Stoker Award. Del has also been a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award.