The Deluge

by Mark Morris

Book Overview

It came from nowhere. The only warning was the endless rumbling of a growing earthquake. Then the water came--crashing, rushing water, covering everything. Destroying everything. When it stopped, all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843958936
• ISBN13: 9780843958935
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

An awesome book!

I so highly recommend this book! I had never read anything by this author before and now I'm hungry for more! It is a great mix of survival horror, and little sci-fi and mystery. I read a lot of horror books and this is one of the best ones I've read in a while.

I WISH I HAD BOUGHT IT SOONER!!!

For some odd reason, I was under the impression that this was The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene, but under a different title. A couple of weeks ago I realized that it wasn't and I purchased it. I was a tad worried that it was going to be a cheap rip-off of The Conqueror Worms, but it was not. It was an exceptionally spun tale about a handful of survivors after a worldwide flood had swallowed the Earth. What happens after the water recedes becomes an entirely new twist of survival. I enjoyed this book immeasurably!

Wash it Away

This book was a fantastically chilling tale of death, survival and the enduring human spirit. This book will sink its teeth into you and leaving you gasping for more. Mr. Morris is a master at plotting and pacing, making it easy to lose yourself in the world he created. His characters are unforgettable and he manages to give us enough background to have an emotional interest in what happens to them, without bogging the story down with the details.

Good post apocalyptic survival tale

Well written. The author's depictions of the post apocalyptic landscape were second to none. If you enjoy this sub genre of horror, this book will definitely satisfy you. The ending did leave a lot of unanswered questions but with any luck, we will be treated to a sequel to this story.

Excellent survival horror - left open for more

I never realized it before recently, but horror novels have a lot in common with one of my favourite genres of literature - the post holocaust genre. Now, I've only read a handful of horror novels during my life. Most notably over the past couple of years this handful included Brian Keene's Rising and City of the Dead. Another one was Dean Koontz's The Taking. As I said, I only just realized that these novels all share the common thread of global Apocalypse. Be it the dead rising, controlled by demons or some sinister force that takes most of the people from the planet. Many years ago, when I was reading nothing but post apocalypse fiction, back in it's heyday in the mid eighties, I never made the connection with the pure horror that followed in the wake of global thermonuclear war. This type of horror is something that you typically see in post holocaust novels. The way death is described, how humanity turns on itself when everything goes south... That's why, I guess, I didn't find the novel The Deluge by Mark Morris all that horrific. I've seen much of what he described already. I guess because of my earlier taste in literature, I got pretty much desensitised towards a lot of things that would turn most people's stomachs. The story is pretty simple. A flood covers London, flooding everything except the tallest buildings. All power is lost, communication systems fail, and those few who manage to survive are left, quite literally, in the dark. The flood waters recede almost as quickly as they arrived a mere three days later, allowing those few who didn't drown to reach the sodden ground. Dealing with a serious shortage of food and water, the survivors also have to contend with the dead clogging the now ruined buildings and streets. Mr. Morris did a great job in setting the scene. Some people might complain that he overdid the description of the devastation, but I'm not one of them. Even his description of the dead and how they decayed as time progressed was well done. One thing I also really liked about the novel was the fact that it was set in the UK. All the fiction I've read over the decades, all the post apocalyptic fiction that is, has been almost exclusively set in the states. Having it set in a foreign country like that was a very refreshing change of pace for me. Another refreshing change was the use of another country's slang. Because I spent a couple of years in the tourist industry, I had to deal with tourists from the UK all the time. I got quite used to their slang. It surprised me how much of it I not only recognized, but could understand. I won't divulge the major plot hook of the novel, but anyone who reads the teaser on the first page can guess. More than just a survival novel, it's also about a journey and hope, hope that loved ones will somehow have survived the flood and what has come since. To complicate things further, part of the horror involved in the novel deals with how quickly the trappings of m