The spray was meant to kill pests. Instead, it woke the dead. In the small farming county of Hallowfield, progress arrives on silver wings. A crop duster soars over the fields, releasing a miracle pesticide said to be safe, targeted, and foolproof. But by nightfall, the yellow fog seeps into graves, crawls through soil, and stirs what should have remained silent forever. When the first hand claws through the dirt, cemetery groundskeeper Frankie Pruett realizes the county has unleashed something it cannot control. The dead rise slow, deliberate, and unrelenting. There are no fast zombies here, no chaotic monsters-just patient corpses that never stop coming. At the Dawson farmhouse, Harold, Marlene, and their teenage daughter Ellie fight to hold the line as the world tilts into nightmare. Windows shatter, doors strain under weight, and each night stretches into a siege where grief and desperation weigh as heavily as hunger and fear. What do you do when the family dog is bitten? When your daughter begs to save her best friend, already lost to the fog? When survival means opening your door to a stranger who may bring salvation-or doom? Across fields and farmhouses, into the hollowed-out town square, and finally onto the dark waters of Lake Harrow, survivors will learn that the yellow fog doesn't just raise the dead-it erodes trust, poisons water, and pushes humanity to its breaking point. In this new world, the greatest danger isn't how fast the dead can move...it's that they never stop. Haunting and atmospheric, When the Fields Awoke is a relentless descent into rural horror where every choice is heavy, every loss cuts deep, and every breath feels borrowed. With echoes of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, and The Last of Us, this story doesn't just ask how you survive the end of the world-it asks what kind of person you become when survival is all that's left. Once the ground itself begins to move, nowhere is safe.