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Zombie Road
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761352904
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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Zombie Road

(This book is Dead Scary)





So you dare to be scared?

Twelve-year-old Ace Walker has one rule: never stay out after sunset.

Because when the sun goes down, the dead rise – fast, hungry and hunting for brains.

But when his best friend Callie collapses with appendicitis, Ace has one shot to save her: steal a truck and race across the desert to the nearest hospital before nightfall.

A flat tyre, an undead bike gang and an exploding petrol station? Just the beginning.

Because on Zombie Road, one wrong turn means death – or worse.

  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761352904
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
Categories:

About the authors

Steve Worland

Steve Worland has worked extensively in film and television in Australia and the USA. He wrote the screenplay for the smash hit Australian family film Paper Planes with director Robert Connolly, won the ACCTA award for best original screenplay for the same film, and adapted the movie into a bestselling novel for young readers. Steve has written screenplays for Working Title, Icon Productions and The Jim Henson Company, worked in script development for James Cameron's Lightstorm and wrote Fox Searchlight's Bootmen, which won five ACCTA awards. Steve also wrote the action-comedy telemovie Hard Knox for New Line Television, episodes of the Southern Star action series Big Sky and the Saturn award-winning Farscape. He is the author of the action-adventure novels Velocity, Combustion and Quick as well as the charity joke book The Bloke-a-saurus, which he wrote with his brother, Gus.

TJ DOOM

TJ DOOM lives off the grid in a crumbling mansion at the edge of a dark and windswept forest. Surrounded by creepy old portraits that appear to watch – and judge – the writer's every move, DOOM spends the long, haunted nights crafting sinister stories designed to do just one thing: mess with your head. His tales are precision engineered for maximum dread. Some say that if DOOM’s books are cracked open after midnight, the creatures inside won’t just haunt your dreams, they’ll crawl out of the pages and come looking for you.

TJ DOOM doesn’t do interviews. Doesn’t sign autographs. Won’t even pose for a photo. Naturally, this has fuelled rumours that the writer is an ancient, blood-sucking vampire whose image can never be caught on camera. Because DOOM is always uncontactable, this
cannot be confirmed. Or denied.