Xyster: Download the Dead 2
(2026)(The second book in the Download the Dead series)
A Story by Stephen Barnard
HALLOWEEN IS CANCELLED
A year on from the catastrophic events of October 2025, Halloween has been abolished worldwide, and any ownership of the malicious eBook Download The Dead is regarded as an act of terrorism.
Yet, there are still those who harbour it, or crave a peek inside its despicable pages.
And there are those who stumble across it unwittingly.
Isaac Morton is gifted a second-hand laptop for his eighteenth birthday. When he and his friends fire it up, they discover files on there that no one should read.
What follows results in their entire village being placed under quarantine, and marks the arrival of a sinister entity that has torn through the veil between the living and the dead before.
Cornelius Xyster. He revelled in his kills last Halloween. This year, he has a more ominous agenda.
From the author of Download the Dead, No One is Leaving, and Grievers’ Wood.
Genre: Horror
A year on from the catastrophic events of October 2025, Halloween has been abolished worldwide, and any ownership of the malicious eBook Download The Dead is regarded as an act of terrorism.
Yet, there are still those who harbour it, or crave a peek inside its despicable pages.
And there are those who stumble across it unwittingly.
Isaac Morton is gifted a second-hand laptop for his eighteenth birthday. When he and his friends fire it up, they discover files on there that no one should read.
What follows results in their entire village being placed under quarantine, and marks the arrival of a sinister entity that has torn through the veil between the living and the dead before.
Cornelius Xyster. He revelled in his kills last Halloween. This year, he has a more ominous agenda.
From the author of Download the Dead, No One is Leaving, and Grievers’ Wood.
Genre: Horror