Horror gets a whole lot more terrifying as Warren Ellis unleashes his full-color zombie epic! A tiny little island off the East Coast of America, that sits on its own tiny little fault in the underlying tectonic plate. An odd little history ignored by almost everyone. Until the night of the big storm, and the creak in the fault line, and the release of something foul from the earth's guts, blown across the little town on Smoky Island. And the only two people on the island who were outside its reach are now trapped on a black spit of rock with a population who aren't people anymore. They started eating each other an hour ago.

When a young couple go and visit the mans parents on a small island they come across the strange, reclusive and almost feral neighbors with crude ways. When the island suffers a quake the massive central rock that is the feature of the island splits releasing a cloud of black gas. Later when they come across the some members of the family again and they are now murderous with jet black eyes streaming black tears.