Anna and the Apocalypse novel coming soon

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE, Orion Pictures’ feature film musical is winning over audiences at film festivals worldwide with its humor, horror and musical dance numbers. And the movie is heading to select theaters November 30 with a national rollout to follow. Ahead of the film’s theatrical release, the film is set to arrive in bookstores as an all-new horror comedy novel from co-authors Katherine Turner and Barry Waldo.

ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE promises an extended look at Anna and her friends as they navigate the teen angst-filled halls of high school and wage an all-out war against a zombie invasion, expanding on the creative vision of ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE creator, the late Ryan McHenry, and director John McPhail.

The novel’s co-authors Katherine Turner and Barry Waldo:

Anna and the Apocalypse is a wonderfully realized world, full of strong characters, epic friendships and gripping adventure. The book gave us the chance to delve deeper into relatable, kick-ass characters and really dig into their lives and relationships. The Anna universe is so full of heart and so much fun to explore, it was just a gift to us as writers. It’s definitely the best zombie high school Christmas horror comedy book we’ve ever written!

Book Synopsis

School’s out for the end of the world. Anna and the Apocalypse is a horror comedy about a teenager who faces down a zombie apocalypse with a little help from her friends.

Anna Shepherd is a straight-A student with a lot going on under the surface: she’s struggling with her mom’s death, total friend drama, and the fallout from wasting her time on a very attractive boy. She’s looking forward to skipping town after graduation―but then a zombie apocalypse majorly disrupts the holidays season. It’s going to be very hard to graduate high school without a brain.
To save the day, Anna, her friends, and her frenemies will have to journey straight to the heart of one of the most dangerous places ever known, a place famous for its horror, terror, and pain…high school.

This novel is inspired by the musical feature film, ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE, produced by Blazing Griffin in association with Parkhouse Pictures and Creative Scotland, and distributed by Orion Picture in North America, Vertigo Releasing in the UK, Spendid in Germany, Pony Canyon in Japan, MovieCloud in Taiwan and various other partners around the world.

The ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE book, based on the original screenplay by Alan McDonald and Ryan McHenry, is available for pre-order now RIGHT HERE. It will be released on October 23, 2018.