FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN

NATURE IS RELENTLESS,” SAYS David Koepp, “and has a long plan that may not involve us.” Life finds a way. And when the man who wrote the script for Jurassic Park tells you that, you tend to listen. Koepp is one of the apex predators of Hollywood screenwriting, in fact, with a blockbuster résumé that’s clawed over $6 billion in global box office: Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, Panic Room, Angels & Demons, as well as 1997’s sequelsaurus The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

Now he’s switched media with Cold Storage, his first novel, a bio-thriller that puts a gruesomely fungal spin on the zombie genre.

“I love movies and my ideas tend to come in movie form,” Koepp tells . “I had this idea and I thought, ‘Well, that would be a good movie,’ and I started writing a treatment, which is the horrible document that you’re asked to write in movies sometimes. They’re ghastly, because it’s not even an interim document. It’s an interim document on the way to the interim document. You’re describing what a script might be like, which describes what a movie might be like.