The Strain (2009) novel, Book 1 of the Strain Trilogy

Mexican superstar motion picture director Guillermo del Toro, who lives in Los Angeles, California, USA, and novelist Chuck Hogan, who published a similar work in 1998, The Blood Artists, have teamed up to kill off the world with a vampirism virus in their Strain Trilogy:

• Book 1, The Strain (2009)



• Book 2, The Fall (2010)



• Book 3, The Night Eternal (2011)

In Book 1 that favorite target of doomsday scenarios, New York City, is ground zero for this virus, the likes of which have been seen before.