While fans of the Elder Scrolls game franchise wait for news of any new games in the series publisher Bethesda Softworks is giving them something else to nibble on. The company announced it has signed a deal with Del Rey Books to publish two novels set in the Elder Scrolls universe with the first to be release sometime this fall.

Novelist Greg Keyes gets the gig to write the novels and the first book, The Infernal City, is set after the events in Bethesda's last game in the series, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The plot has a floating city killing people in the game's world merely by its shadow across the land. To make matters worse, those dead folks rise again. Yep, this book has zombies in it. Who can stop this threat? According to the press release the only hope lies with "a seventeen-year-old girl named Annaig and the Emperor's young son, Prince Attrebus." Ohkay . . . .