Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

9 best books like Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (John Joseph Adams): I Am Legend and Other Stories, Full Throttle, Earth Abides, Sympathy for the Devil, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, Emergence, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, 21st Century Dead, Tomorrow Factory: Collected Fiction

I Am Legend and Other Stories

Author

Richard Matheson

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades...

Full Throttle

Author	Joe Hill
ISBN	0062200674

In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The Tall Grass,” one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.

A little...

Earth Abides

Author	George R. Stewart
ISBN	0345487133

”The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way. Mankind had been trembling about destruction through war, and had been having bad dreams of cities blown to pieces along with their inhabitants, of animals killed, too, and of the very vegetation...

Sympathy for the Devil

Author	Tim Pratt
ISBN	1597801895

The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil has them all. Edited by Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the Devil collects the...

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

Author	C.A. Fletcher
ISBN	0316449458

When a beloved family dog is stolen, her owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of our world to bring her back in this fiercely compelling tale of survival, courage, and hope. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and The Girl With All the Gifts.

My name's Griz. My childhood...

Emergence

Author	David R. Palmer
ISBN	0553245015

Candidia Maria Smith-Foster, an eleven-year-old girl, is unaware that she's a Homo post hominem, mankind's next evolutionary step.

With international relations rapidly deteriorating, Candy's father, publicly a small-town pathologist but secretly a government biowarfare expert,...

Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	1534413472

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.

Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially...

21st Century Dead

Author	Christopher Golden
ISBN	0312605846

The Stoker-award winning editor of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead, and an all-new lineup of authors from all corners of the fiction world, shining a dark light on our fascination with tales of death and resurrection... with ZOMBIES! The stellar stories...

Tomorrow Factory: Collected Fiction

Author	Rich Larson
ISBN	1945863307

Twenty-three stories from one of speculative fiction’s up-and-coming stars, Pushcart and Journey Prize-nominated author Rich Larson.

Welcome to the Tomorrow Factory.

On your left, post-human hedonists on a distant space station bring diseases back in fashion, two scavengers...