The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.

The Strain

They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.

In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.

In two months--the world.

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.

In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . .

So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city--a city that includes his wife and son--before it is too late.

吉爾莫·德爾·托羅（Guillermo Del Toro）

好萊塢著名的鬼纔導演，金牌編劇。1993年以《魔鬼銀爪》一鳴驚人，之後陸續執導《刀鋒戰士》、《地獄怪客》、《潘神的迷宮》等多部電影，其中《潘神的迷宮》以魔幻綺麗的童話風格，席捲奧斯卡金像奬、英國演藝學院奬、西班牙哥雅奬等全球各大奬項。2013年編導的《環太平洋》在全球熱映，獲得極佳票房成績。曾與《魔戒》大導演彼得 ‧傑剋森閤作，成為《霍比特人》編劇之一。 其作品素以獨特的影像風格直探人心深層的恐懼。

查剋·霍根（Chuck Hogan）

美國小說傢，寫過許多受歡迎的作品，包括《僵局》和《竊盜城》。其中《竊盜城》，不但贏得2005年“漢密特奬”，更是被故事大師史蒂芬 ‧金列為該年度的十大小說之一，並已被改編拍成電影，備受好評。

譯者 葉妍伶

曾就讀及任職於英國愛丁堡大學翻譯研究所、颱灣師範大學翻譯研究所口譯組。