Who is David Wellington

Monster Island was the novel that began the serialised horror campaign.

The world has gone mad. In just a few days ordinary people starting turning into Zombies, and UN Weapons Inspector Dekalb discovers that the safest place on Earth now happens to be Somalia.

Unfortunately, he has to buy citizenship for himself and his daughter - the cost is anti-retroviral drugs. And Dekalb knows where to get them.

Together with a small army of female Somalian child soldiers, Dekalb returns by boat to New York, to steal a supply of drugs from UN headquarters.

Meanwhile, in Manhattan, medical student Gary decides if he's doomed to become a zombie, he's going down with a full oxygen supply to his brain. A few hours later, Gary wakes feeling very little difference - except he's dead. And he's just a little peckish.

And just to add to the fun - over at the Natural History Museum in Manhattan, the Egyptian mummies on display have started waking, along with an ancient Celtic druid who thinks he knows exactly what's going on.

Monster Nation is the prequel to Monster Island, and explains how the Zombie epidemic occured.

A yoga instructor in California, takes refuge in an oxygen bar after she is inexplicably bitten by a mad man she hit with her car.

Unfortunately, she doesn't remember much of her life before she was bitten - not her name, her history, or where she lives. She calls herself Nilla when asked, because she has "nil" memory.

Then a helpful being contacts her and offers his help. He knows her real name, and he'll tell her everything he knows about her if she can get herself across the country to Manhattan.

Nilla doesn't have much choice but to run towards New York when the police start hunting her down, even though the helpful stranger claims to be an ancient Celtic druid awakened into undeath by the same epidemic that is turning everyone into Zombies. Celtic druid? Who's he kidding, right?

Monster Planet is set twelve years following Monster Island.

Dekalb's daughter, Sarah, is now grown up. After her father failed to return from Manhattan with the few Somalian child soldiers who survived, Sarah was raised as a warrior by Ayaan, one of the heroines of Monster Island.

Now Ayaan has been kidnapped by a group of intelligent zombies with frightening superpowers, and Sarah joins forces with Ptolemy, once the all-powerful ruler of Egypt and now a voiceless undead mummy, to rescue her mentor and find out what really happened to her father all those years ago.

Wellington moves away from zombies in this book, and straight into the jaws of vampires.

When State Trooper Laura Caxton pulls over a car for a routine drink driving check, the second last thing she expects to find in the trunk are body parts. The last thing she expects to find, after chasing the driver over a barbed wire fence, is a severed arm that moves by itself.

Most civilians believe that vampires, active until the 1980s, have become extinct. But Special Deputy Arkeley believes differently. He's been waiting for evidence of vampirism for twenty years, ever since he was captured by one of the last vampires, and escaped.

Laura's crime scene is Arkeley's evidence. And for some reason Laura can't understand yet, Arkeley has requested a new partner for the case. Her.