Apocalypse now! at a bookstore near you

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What is it about apocalyptic storylines that make us want to curl up with a good book? Fans of The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan are as hungry as blood-deprived vampires for The Night Eternal, book three in the series, out Oct. 25, about a world over run by a vampire plague. 

The same goes for The Twelve, the follow-up to Justin Cronin's The Passage, about a zombie/vampire plague, due out in 2012. 


Right now, fans are reading Dan Simmons'Flashback in which America is all but destroyed by the citizenry's drug addiction and Robopocalypse, Daniel H. Wilson's sci-fi thriller about a robot uprising. New next week: The Griff, a graphic novel by Christopher Moore (You Suck and Bite Me) and Ian Corson with Jennyson Rosero (William Morrow, $22.99) about an alien invasion and the Goth-y girl, the skateboarding punk and a killer whale trainer who are among the earthling survivors trying to bring down the alien mothership.