Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a mysterious problem with the power system. Every appliance in the city is going at full blast, and the entire population is struck by blinding headaches. The pressure builds to an intolerable pitch and then... stops.

Moments later, in morgues and cemeteries across Stockholm, the dead start to rise. But these are not the nameless zombies of classic horror; they are real dead people: mothers, children, grandchildren, and spouses. Desperately loved, bitterly missed, and now "reliving." Which is not, it turns out, the same as being alive.

John Ajvide Lindqvist, acclaimed author of the world's most original vampire novel, Let the Right One In, brings a deliciously ironic mixture of the macabre and the heartbreaking to the big questions of love and death. Handling the Undead is the must-read horror novel of the year, exploring our greatest fear and a love that defies death.