Rabbit and his friends have survived the onslaught of the dead to find themselves stranded in a wasteland that was once Afton, Georgia. It's a bloody fight for survival until they take refuge in the halls of their former high school. But dark powers are waking at Afton High, blotting out any hope of survival. Consumed with fear and suspicion, the mania of a rapidly spreading cult threatens to destroy them all. They quickly discover the greatest danger comes not from the dead massing outside the walls?but from one another. Will Strange works part-time in a morgue. That's why he knows so much about dead bodies.