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The Unconsecrated

BooksUndead2000 to 2009

The Unconsecrated are the mindless undead of Carrie Ryan's young-adult novel. The heroine lives in a walled village deep in the woods, ruled by a religious order, with the dead roaming the forest outside. The book was a New York Times bestseller.1

Battle it
First appeared
2009
Released 2009
Source work
The Forest of Hands and Teeth (2009)
Carrie Ryan
Made in
USA
What causes it
Never explained
An unexplained disaster that the village's religious order calls the Return.
Intelligence
Mindless

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2009

Released 2009

field notes

What the sources say

1

They fill the forest around a fenced village1

2

The village is run by a religious order, the Sisterhood, alongside the Guardians1

3

The Sisterhood's leader teaches that the Return was God's punishment1

4

A young-adult bestseller followed by two sequels1

Sources

  1. The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Wikipedia

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