10 Great Horror Novels That Need TV Adaptations Immediately

The Walking Dead’s massive success is slowly luring the zombie fervor away from features, so if we’re going to have more undead TV characters, they might as well come from one of the novels that kicked this craze off to begin with. Brian Keene’s 2003 novel The Rising takes place in a world where an interdimensional rift has been opened, and demons are let loose to enter the dead, starting up a zombie apocalypse. The story doesn’t sound revolutionary at this point – a suicidal guy teams up with a black minister and a heroin addict on a trek across part of the country so that he can find his son – but this isn’t a world where nothing is going on outside of the survivors’ stories. There’s a lot of fucked up stuff happening in Keene's head most of the time, and it only gets more complicated in the sequel City of the Dead.