Knight, Stephen
Entry updated 29 December 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author, chiefly of Horror, who began to publish work of genre interest with the Vampire thriller City of the Damned (2011 ebook; exp with text restored 2012). His sequence The Gathering Dead, opening with The Gathering Dead (2011), threatens the USA and the world at large with a virus-borne Pandemic that generates an ever-growing Zombie horde. Earthfall (2013) is a Post-Holocaust tale. The Retreat sequence beginning with The Retreat 1: Pandemic (2013 ebook) with Craig DiLouie (billed as the principal author) and Joe McKinney describes the Military SF response to a Near Future plague whose victims become not zombies but laughing psychopaths. [DRL]
Stephen Knight
born Texas
works
series
The Gathering Dead
- The Gathering Dead (place not known: Severed Press, 2011) [The Gathering Dead: pb/]
- Left with the Dead (place not known: Severed Press, 2011) [The Gathering Dead: pb/]
- The Rising Horde: Volume 1 (place not known: Ronin Books, 2012) [The Gathering Dead: pb/]
- The Rising Horde: Volume 2 (place not known: Ronin Books, 2012) [The Gathering Dead: pb/]
The Retreat
- The Retreat 1: Pandemic (place not given: The Retreat Series, 2013) with Craig DiLouie and Joe McKinney [ebook: The Retreat: na/]
- The Retreat 2: Slaughterhouse (place not given: The Retreat Series, 2014) with Craig DiLouie and Joe McKinney [ebook: The Retreat: na/]
- The Retreat 3: Die Laughing (place not given: The Retreat Series, 2015) with Craig DiLouie and Joe McKinney [ebook: The Retreat: na/]
- The Retreat 4: Pandemic (place not given: The Retreat Series, 2016) with Craig DiLouie and Joe McKinney [ebook: The Retreat: na/Joachim Luetke]
individual titles
- City of the Damned (place not given: Kindle Edition, 2011) [ebook: heavily cut: na/]
- City of the Damned (place not known: Ronin Books, 2012) [exp of the above with text restored: pb/]
- Earthfall (place not known: Ronin LLC, 2013) [pb/]
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