Saul Tanpepper

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  • Bibliography:
    64 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2011
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Bunker 12

1 - Contain (May-2015)
2 - Condemn (Dec-2015)
3 - Control (Jan-2017)
4 - Consume (Jan-2020)

The Flense

1 - China (Oct-2015)
2 - Iceland (Sep-2016)
3 - Africa (Dec-2017)
4 - Cuba (May-2020)

GAMELAND

0.5 - Golgotha (Jul-2012)
1 - Deep Into the Game (Jun-2012)
2 - Failsafe (Jun-2012)
3 - Deadman's Switch (Aug-2012)
4 - Sunder The Hollow Ones (Aug-2012)
5 - Prometheus Wept (Sep-2012)
6 - Kingdom of Players (Oct-2012)
7 - Tag, You're Dead (Nov-2012)
8 - Jacker's Code (Dec-2012)
9 - Infected (Apr-2013)
10 - A Dark and Sure Descent (Jun-2014)
11 - Dead Reckoning (Dec-2014)

Zpocalypto

1 - Hacked Into The Game (Mar-2021)

Book List in Order: 64 titles

  • The Headhunter

    From the collection Shorting the Undead & Other HorrorsBilly Hawkins is consumed by a single, dark obsession - to find the monster who murdered his wife and take its head. But a year passes since the Zombie Uprising, and the world has become a bru...

  • A Thing for Zombies

    It's funny, the things you get used to seeing, now that they've passed the Undead Amnesty laws. Funny how quickly you learn to ignore them. But then one of them walks in like this and you realize there are some things you'll just never get used to.Li...

  • The Object of her Obsession

    There's something about Felipe-Janssen knives, the fancyones you used to be able to get at Milano's on Tenth Street in downtown GrandForks. My Uncle Phil got us a set of them for Christmas a half dozen years back, the ones with theguaranteed Evershar...

  • Flawless, a Claire Fontaine novella

  • Shorting the Undead and Other Horrors

    Eight terrifying tales of the Undead and the Unliving. 
    Includes:

    Occupied (a supermoto champion is trapped on an airplane with the Undead)

    Mr. November (four boys, a haunted house, and the World Series on Halloween night)

    Th...

  • Insomnia

    Insomnia (n) - 1. An inability to sleep; a state of agitated wakefulness, often as a result of troubling thoughts. 2. A collection of seven haunting tales causing a state of agitated wakefulness and troubling thoughts.
    This collection includes the...

  • Mr. November

    After years away, a man returns to his hometown hoping to reconcile the memory of his brother's tortured death and to face the haunted house where it all started one dreadful Halloween night. But will the ghost of his brother let finally let him rest...

  • Outsourced

    The Undead rise in this short, dark comedy about zombies and their undying need for... jobs.Outsourced is a timely tale about our changing world, when jobs are being sent overseas... and workers are being replaced by mindless machines....

  • The Scenario Egg

    A man's death liberates his soul.Humanity's death liberates the world.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A successful hi-tech speculator learns first-hand that technological progress has a dark side: though it builds, it can also destroy in an instant.W...



  • Deep Into the Game

    GAMELAND - 1

    6 Hackers, 1 Game... and 10,000 Undead.

    Everyone's addicted to Survivalist, a live-action, virtual reality television show featuring highlights from Arc Entertainment's The Game. Filmed in Gameland, where cybernetically controlled zombies do ...

  • Failsafe

    GAMELAND - 2

    6 Hackers, 1 Game... and 10,000 Undead.
    Everyone loves Survivalist, a live-action, virtual reality show based on Arc Entertainment's The Game, where cybernetically controlled zombies do battle in a video arcade in the middle of a Long Island wast...

  • Open Wide

    Already down on his luck, things take a bizarre turn for Kurt when he runs into his old high school buddy-turned-bitter enemy at a soup kitchen years later. Dean has married Kurt's old flame. But hard feelings are swept aside when Dean offers a helpi...

  • Golgotha

    GAMELAND - 0.5

    Attempting to avert a human disaster of global proportions, a molecular geneticist self-administers an experimental antidote against a military virus that reanimates the dead. But in order to ensure it works, he must first infect himself and allow th...

  • Deadman's Switch

    GAMELAND - 3

    "Five hackers. One game. Ten thousand Infected Undead."

    EPISODE 3: "Deadman's Switch"

    Unable to escape from Long Island because of the failsafe device implanted inside their brains, the group digs in until they can devise a way to neutralize i...

  • Sunder The Hollow Ones

    GAMELAND - 4

    "Five hackers. One game. Ten thousand Infected Undead."

    EPISODE 4: "Sunder the Hollow Ones"

    A mutiny in the group splits the members, leaving Jessie out in the cold. As she continues to struggle to fulfill her promise to bring everyone safely ...

  • Nocturne

    After the birth of his son, a man becomes so obsessed with Death, that he imagines it at every turn, around every corner, and at every junction. Every morning he wakes up suprised to find himself still alive.The disappointment is almost more than h...

  • Prometheus Wept

    GAMELAND - 5

    "Five hackers. One game. Ten thousand Infected Undead."

    EPISODE 5: "Prometheus Wept"

    After one member of their group is infected, Jessie makes a decision to hand over another to a mysterious group of Undead sympathizers in exchange for a promi...

  • The Grin

    When seventeen-year-old Cassie Ingersoll gets a last-minute call to babysit on Christmas Eve, she's tempted to just blow it off. Who in their right mind thinks they're going to find someone on this night of all nights? But the extra money could reall...

  • Kingdom of Players

    GAMELAND - 6

    "Five hackers. One game. Ten thousand Infected Undead."

    EPISODE 6: "Kingdom of Players"

    Armed with a potential antiserum to the reanimation virus, Jessica races back to Gameland to save her infected friend. Waylaid along the way, she must figh...



  • Promises and Sacrifices

    Promises and Sacrifices contains two stories from the collection Insomnia: Paranormal Tales, Science Fiction & Horror.The Sacrifices We Make: The abduction of a child reawakens a town to a recurring horror it wishes only to forget.The Promises We Kee...

  • Tag, You're Dead

    GAMELAND - 7

    Five hackers. One game. Ten thousand Infected Undead.

    EPISODE 7: Tag, You’re Dead

    Torn between rescuing Ashley from the homicidal Ben and staying with Jake, who's been infected, Jessie, Kelly and Reggie must carefully plan their next move...

  • Jacker's Code

    GAMELAND - 8

    "Five hackers. One game. Ten thousand Infected Undead."

    EPISODE 8: "Jacker's Code"

    The shocking conclusion to the high-tech horror thriller, GAMELAND. Jessie and the remaining gamers and hackers struggle against all odds to escape Gameland and...

  • Infected

    GAMELAND - 9

    THE ULTIMATE HACKER'S GUIDE TO GAMELANDTaken from the private collection of Ulysses Daniels, the disgraced former commander of the Undead Omegaman Forces, these top secret files contain vital information about key players...

  • Recode

    Our minds store our entire lives, our memories and our deepest desires. Tell no one, and our thoughts remain our own. But our brains are biological computers. Computer hackers can tamper with our email. Could brain hackers someday be able to rewrite ...

  • Velveteen

    Everyone was sick in those days, sick and dying. Even me.

    Especially me.

    Long Island is in the first throes of a deadly outbreak, but for six-year-old Cassie Stemple, the world is much smaller. Her family has been recently sh...

  • The Green Gyre

    One must not gimble in the gyre. On a warm spring day in June, a much older and far more advanced alien race arrives in a massive ship in the sky over Manhattan. For the next thirty-eight minutes, as panic ensues on the gro...

  • Raise the Dead

    A tale of terror from the collection Insomnia: Paranormal Tales, Science Fiction, and Horror

    Chris Stephens can't sing a note on key save his life, but he plays one hell of a lead guitar. But after his jam sessions raise the ire of his neighb...

  • Reached in Error

    A hi-tech tale of terror from the collection Insomnia: Paranormal Tales, Science Fiction, and Horror

    When parapsychology major Ellen Grabowski receives a disturbing phone call at college, she rushes home certain that her young brother is the...

  • Signs of Life

    Welcome to GAMELAND. Everyone's dying to get in.

    Someone's hacking Jessie Daniels's brain implant. But the prime suspect, a former gamer friend, is supposed to be dead. Dead and reanimated. Jessie thinks he may still be alive.

    What ...



  • A Dark and Sure Descent

    GAMELAND - 10

    It's the summer of 2030. A wonderful new digital technology called the Stream is coming to Long Island. That's not all they're getting. This is the true account of a biomedical disaster that will decimate the island in the most terrifying way imagina...

  • The Last Zookeeper

    Two stories about the promise - and the perils - of technology.

    Imagine a future in which technology, not Man, is the apex predator, and all life on Earth as we know it is quickly going extinct.

    A young boy is tormented by his obsession ...

  • Dead Reckoning

    GAMELAND - 11

    The thrilling conclusion to the GAMELAND saga. As network outages begin to spread on the mainland, Jessie Daniels, the only person known to be immune to the Reanimation virus, is ruthlessly hunted down inside Arc Property’s virtual gaming arcade on...

  • They Dreamed of Poppies

    Decades after an ecological disaster destroyed life on Earth, twenty brave souls flee their crowded space station in hopes of resurrecting a failed terraforming experiment on Mars. As expected, they find the planet abandoned, but in a startling turn ...

  • Contain

    Bunker 12 - 1

    flense /flens/ (v) to slice or strip away the skin and fat from a carcass. (n) a highly contagious disease capable of stripping away an individual's life essence.

    THE FLENSE SERIES DESCRIPTION

    (BUNKER 12 companion series)

    ...

  • China

    The Flense - 1

    China is Book 1 of 4 of THE FLENSE quadrilogy (this ebook contains the full-length novel, parts 1-3 of the serial)THE FLENSE SERIES DESCRIPTIONHundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to ca...

  • Condemn

    Bunker 12 - 2

    There is no salvation in the Flense.

    CONDEMN (Book 2 of the BUNKER 12 series)

    Three years after the Flense decimates civilization, Finnian Bolles and a dozen survivors flee the security of Bunker Eight and the murderer it protects. Hoping...

  • Iceland

    The Flense - 2

    Iceland is Book 2 of 4 of THE FLENSE quadrilogy (this ebook contains the full-length novel, parts 4-6 of the serial)THE FLENSE SERIES DESCRIPTIONHundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to ...

  • Control

    Bunker 12 - 3

    Not even the immune are safe.

    CONTROL (Book 3 in the BUNKER 12 series)

    A psychopath has kidnapped Finn's twin brother and is threatening to infect him with the Flense, an artificial virus that turns the vulnerable into vicio...

  • Leviathan

    Earth is dying.On a barren, windless shore of a dead sea, two people, a father and his child, eke out a meager existence. They eat what little they can find. They are tormented by memories and tales of what the world once was.Then, on a day no differ...



  • Occupied

    After a violent accident leaves supermoto champion Stack Miller unable to race, his psychiatrist applies a highly unorthodox approach to treat his PTSD: terror desensitization. But his fears become all too real on a flight home from Bermuda. Is the n...

  • Shelter in Place

    A sudden lockdown at her elementary school jolts a third grade teacher into survival mode. But what begins as a vague threat of unknown origin, gradually reveals itself to be much more personal and dangerous for her and the children under her charge....

  • Get the F**k to Work

    Inspired by Adam Mansbach's spoof "Go the F*k to Sleep" comes the perfect book for that other parental type known as the Personnel Manager. Placating words and promises of promotions don't always send a recalcitrant work...

  • Africa

    The Flense - 3

    Africa is Book 3 of 4 of THE FLENSE quadrilogy (this ebook contains the full-length novel, parts 7-9 of the serial)THE FLENSE SERIES DESCRIPTIONHundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to c...

  • Consume

    Bunker 12 - 4

    What if the cure is worse than the disease?CONSUME (Book 4 in the BUNKER 12 series)A tragic accident inside the long-abandoned tenth bunker has left Finn clinging to life, and his friends facing the possibility that the nanites injected into their bo...

  • Cuba

    The Flense - 4

    Cuba is the 4th and final book of THE FLENSE quadrilogy (this ebook contains the full-length novel, equivalent to parts 7-9 of the serial). Make sure to look for the companion series, BUNKER 12.THE FLENSE SERIES DESCRIPTIONHundreds die in a fiery tra...

  • Hacked Into The Game

    Zpocalypto - 1

    In a live-action virtual reality arcade in the middle of a Long Island wasteland, six people are about to be thrown into the game of their lives.And a hundred thousand undead are waiting for their first meal in a decade.Self-taught master hacker Jess...

  • Failsafe Codex

    No one ever truly escapes the arcade The thrilling saga continues in the second deadly installment of the best-selling post-apocalyptic cyberpunk series by Saul Tanpepper!They survived hacking themselves into the script. They leveled up wit...

  • Deadman's Gambit

    What doesn't kill you makes you stronger The thrilling saga continues in the third deadly installment of the best-selling post-apocalyptic cyberpunk series by Saul Tanpepper! How do you survive the game when you're out of health points?How ...

  • Sunder the Hollowmen

    But sometimes, what kills you does indeed make you stronger. In Gameland, a live-action virtual reality arcade populated by the undead, staying alive isn't always a winning strategy. But for a group of young game hackers, not dying is the only w...



  • Prometheus Mode

    Don't hate the game, hate the gamer. For 5 gamer-hackers stuck in a live action, virtual reality arcade filled with the undead, surviving isn't enough. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices. The newly refreshed and republished series contin...

  • Every Dead Player

    IN THE KINGDOM OF PLAYERS, CHEATERS RULE That moment when you learn the dead aren't the only ones who want you to join their ranks.Episode 06 ratchets up the tension, the terror, and the gore in this relaunch of Saul Tanpepper's popular cyberpun...

  • Cheat Protocol

    HOW DO YOU WIN WHEN THE GAME IS RIGGED? Beset by a betrayal in their midst, Jessie and her friends must navigate a game in which not all the players are known, and where some of them aren't playing fair.Episode 07 brings a new level of fear in t...

  • Jacker's Exploit

    WHAT IF THE ONLY WAY TO CHEAT IS TO WIN? With a hard deadline to leave the island now in play, Jessie and the remaining survivors of this deadly twist on The Game must find a way to escape, even if it means playing dirty. And with so m...

  • Live Another Play

    WINNING THE LEVEL AIN'T WINNING THE GAME Sure, Jessie's safe... for now. But you don't just walk away from The Game, not when there's so much more to play. But with a trail of death and destruction in her wake, will reengaging put even more...

  • Return to the Arcade

    EPISODE 10: RETURN TO THE ARCADEThe survivors of the break-in to Gameland are back home and done with The Game, but it doesn't mean The Game is finished with them. As the days pass, Jessie becomes more and more convinced that some...

  • Augmented Zeality

    EPISODE 11Government is imposing evermore restrictive requirements for implant control, while Arc, Media, and just about everyone else is acting like everything's normal. As Jessie and the others try to navigate the treacherous post-Gameland waters, ...

  • Open-World Spawn

    EPISODE 14With time running out, both on the island and in the rest of New Merica, Jessie races to fix the codex. If she fails, millions will die and millions more will reanimate. But with the minutes quickly ticking away, it'll take the combined eff...

  • Reckoning the Dead

    EPISODE 12After returning to the arcade, Jessie finds herself the target of a nationwide manhunt. But just as her would-be killers close in, the Stream network begins to glitch. Will she be able to escape? And what consequences will there be in Arc's...

  • Glitch in the Script

    EPISODE 13With a contract on her head, there's nowhere for Jessie to run to, nowhere to hide. But she doggedly continues with her mission to retrieve the one thing that can save her... and everyone from the scourge unleashed by her family a decade an...

  • The Devil's House

    In the forge of a burning America, battle lines are hardening. A New World Order of extremism and anarchy is threatening to rise.Zander Hollis is a man on the run... straight into the jaws of danger.Wrongly imprisoned but freed in the chaos of a mass...

  • The Rising Son

    As society collapses, one man refuses to let past wrongs define who he is.Zander Hollis is a wanted man - wanted for murders he didn't commit, wanted for murders he's witnessed, wanted for murders he's capable of committing on behalf of someone else....

  • Insomnia - Paranormal Tales, Science Fiction, and Horror

  • Fire on the Mountain

    A CONVICTED MURDERER. A TEENAGER ORPHANED BY WILDFIRE.THEIR ONLY CHANCE OF SURVIVAL IS TO WORK TOGETHER. Former Army Ranger and combat field medic Zander Hollis is three years into a 7-year murder sentence. He's up for parole, but someone doesn'...

  • Run Boy Run

    FIRE FREED HIM FROM PRISON... AND ORPHANED HER.THEY'LL NEED EACH OTHER IF THEY'RE BOTH GOING TO SURVIVE. Zander Hollis lost everything when he was unfairly tried and convicted of a murder he knows in his heart he couldn't have committed. His wif...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Saul Tanpepper has published 64 books.

Saul Tanpepper does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fire on the Mountain, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Saul Tanpepper, The Headhunter, was published in September 2011.

Yes. Saul Tanpepper has 4 series.
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