Winner of the 2005 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella

An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre.

All is not well at SymaxCorp.

The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again.

It’s down to new boy Ben, together with temp Miranda, kick-boxing Meera and overweight June to try and get to the bottom of the problem.

As colleagues are progressively transformed into mindless, blood crazed zombies, Ben and his friends discover that there really is something in the air…