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The Breakfast Club meets 28 Days Later in this revised and expanded edition of Courtney Summers’s cult classic about a traumatized young woman forced to survive the zombie apocalypse.

Sloane Price knows there are worse things than the end of the world, so when the zombie apocalypse happens, the opportunity to escape her violent home life offers no relief. She’s already lost the one thing that matters most—her sister—and now seems like the perfect time to give up.

But when she inadvertently ends up barricaded in her high school with five other teens, their desperate and volatile bids for survival force a series of impossible decisions. As the days creep by and the dead close in, Sloane must confront everything she thought she knew about life, death, survival, and sacrifice and, once and for all, make a choice.

Joined together for the first time in this special “director’s cut” edition, This Is Not a Test and its novella sequel Please Remain Calm explore the forces that tether us to life—and to each other—in our darkest times.

IN STORES MARCH 31st 2026 from BINDERY BOOKS

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY ADAM MACDONALD AND STARRING OLIVIA HOLT

NEWS

  1. This is Not a Test will make its world premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, October 17th, 2025. Individual tickets open for purchase September 12th. Get yours. (Read the Variety movie announcement.)

  2. Read more about the new expanded and revised “Director’s cut” edition of This Is Not a Test to be published by The Inky Phoenix Press / Bindery Books March 31st, 2026 and preorder your copy today.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Courtney Summers is an uncompromising writer¹ known for a history of risky artistic choices² and pushing boundaries³ with novels that are not for the faint of heart.⁴ She is a New York Times and Indie bestselling author and has received over 20 starred reviews and numerous awards and honors, including the Edgar and ITW Thriller Awards.

 

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LITERARY AGENT:
Faye Bender, The Book Group

FILM & TV:
Mary Pender, WME

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