Gallery Books has revealed the haunting cover for THEM, the solo debut novel from W. H. Chizmar, arriving August 11, 2026. A post-apocalyptic survival story in the bestselling traditions of Stephen King’s The Mist and Josh Malerman’s Bird Box, THE LAST SURVIVOR delivers a harrowing portrait of isolation, transformation, and the thin line between man and monster.
A top-secret government project hits upon a revolutionary idea for transporting matter across the vast reaches of the universe – and succeeds in bringing something back. Something alive. When a truck hauling a very special shipping container overturns on a quiet New England highway, it unleashes an otherworldly horror upon the countryside that cannot be contained.
Years later, an unidentified man emerges from the rubble of humanity, traveling by night through the ruins of the East Coast in search of survivors and a shred of hope. Haunted by the monsters roaming the land – and the ones that have taken root inside him – he must confront what it truly means to endure when the world ends.
THEM marks Chizmar’s first solo novel, expanding the legacy of cosmic dread and human resilience that has defined his collaborations.
Without further ado, feast your eyes on the eerie new cover for THEM.
