Horror. Dark. Eye catching book cover. Tell readers it's about zombies without showing them zombies.

Rise of the Grey

Carl Perron

Carl Perron lives with his wife, daughter, and yellow lab, on the shores of the Fraser River in British Columbia. A former military medic and post-apocalyptic world aficionado, he’s visited over thirty World Heritage sites around the world, and in each one, he’s identified the best locations to hole up and ride out an apocalypse of the differently-animated.

Abelone Jensen, a World Health Organization field epidemiologist, is sent to the remote shores of Greenland to investigate a caravel thawing from a glacier. This ship is believed to be the Trojan horse that spread the fourteenth-century plague from Asia to Europe. What Abelone finds there is something horrifying—a virus that transforms people into single-minded creatures whose only goal is to spread the infection to others. As the virus spreads, she tries to gather everything needed to develop a cure whilst struggling to answer the one question that haunts her: can the infected be saved or should they die?

Horror readers. Zombie lovers. Apocalyptic world chasers. 18 to 45-year-olds.

Paperback

Looking for original book cover ideas. No generic or predesigned zombie book covers. See the attached art and book covers that capture the essence of what I like. I am looking for something that says, "This is a book about zombies" without it having obvious zombies on the cover. If there are zombies it has to be subtle. The look and feel of the cover has to be professional. Avoid tacky or overdone styles. The book cover must be subtle but still complex when you look closely. For example, the book cover background could be black made up of detailed zombie-style shadows layered in. Similar to the example #1 and #2 with the number 1 and 2 in the top left corner of attached pictures. I am open to hordes of zombie silhouettes or heads being subtly layered into the design. The title should figure prominently and easily seeable from afar if on a bookshelf or as an e-book thumbnail. The mood should be dark and serious but still draw most people's attention. The cover needs to convey hordes of zombie-like monsters, not single creatures. But see notes above. And it’s not necessary to have zombies on the cover. Be original. Lean towards illustrative and typographic and less photographic. These are just ideas, I am looking for something original that will catch someone's eye.

***NO GENERIC ZOMBIE BOOK COVERS*** Stock imagery should be limited and only used if it meets the criteria above. No photos/pictures of people (only silhouettes). No stock imagery of zombie's hands (way too overused). No cemeteries. No young adult covers or fonts. The cover should not turn off people by being gross or too scary. Should be in line with the attached cover styles and not look like a generic cover about zombies, because it isn't.