The tale of the last human on an Earth overrun by the undead.

Robert Neville lives in his old family home, assaulted nightly by what were once his friends and neighbors who have become the walking dead. He, in turn, waits until the morning light and searches out their hiding places in order to destroy them when they are at their most vulnerable.

Then, in one of his travels he finds that there is another who is doing the same thing. He is not alone in the world after all.

This novel is where it all started. The pioneering work that later inspired every other tale of a normal human being fighting against the odds in a world gone mad with the hungry hordes of the undead.

"A thinking man's horror novel."