Ajvide Lindqvist, John

Oskar, a friendless, twelve-year-old living in suburban Sweden in 1981, is not at all upset when one of his tormentors is found dead, drained of blood, and hopes that vengeance has come at last--not realizing his wish has come true with the arrival of Eli, a strange new neighbor girl who only comes out at night.

After thousands of recently deceased people rise from their graves in Stockholm, Sweden, the local authorities begin to question the relatives of the undead.

A man finds a baby in the woods and he and wife decide to raise the child, but when the couple's son, Jerry, takes the child to Stockholm he enters the child into a singing competition, and when another young girl sees the performance of the child she seeks revenge.