Perfect for Readers Who Love

• zombie apocalypse survival horror

• trapped survival scenarios

• realistic group dynamics under pressure

• survival stories with emotional depth

• post-apocalyptic wilderness survival

• ordinary people forced into impossible situations

• animal survival stories during the apocalypse

• gritty, grounded zombie fiction

• character-driven horror with high emotional stakes

Tropes & Themes

• Zombie outbreak

• Survival horror

• Found family

• Group survival

• Moral compromise

• Trapped survivors

• Wilderness survival

• Dangerous strangers

• Emotional trauma

• Character-driven apocalypse

• Human conflict vs. zombie threat

• Strong ensemble cast

A zoo keeps dangerous things inside. No one planned for the zombies that surround its fences.

When the dead begin to rise across Pittsburgh, the city's zoo becomes a fortress — but it could just as easily become a deathtrap.

The bridges are gridlocked. The rivers impassable. Neighborhoods fall block by block.

Zookeeper Imogen faces an impossible choice: abandon the endangered Iberian lynxes she's devoted her career to saving, or risk everything to get them out. Mike, who knows the city's rugged terrain better than anyone, needs to find a way through the chaos to reach the only family he has left.

Thrown together by the outbreak, they must navigate a collapsing city where the animals are loose, the dead are relentless, and every decision could save the group — or tear it apart.

Getting out of Pittsburgh was never easy. Now it might be impossible.

Undead Menagerie is a zombie apocalypse survival horror novel set in the Pittsburgh Zoo, combining trapped-survivor tension, emotional character drama, dangerous group dynamics, and relentless survival in the terrifying first days of the outbreak.

Perfect for fans of Rhiannon Frater and D.J. Molles.