After a gloriously beautiful meteor shower blinds most of Earth’s population, Bill Masen despairs at his position as the last sighted man in the world. Chaos rips through every city, and what’s worse, the curious – and venomous – Triffid plants start escaping their confines. Large, barely mobile orchids are not the most obviously villainous of creatures, but these Triffids will chill your blood to icewater.
Recovering in hospital from a blinding triffid sting, Bill Masen, wakes up to an uncanny silence...
Bill continues his search for Jo, through the spreading disease and maurading triffids...
Bill finds himself kidnapped, imprisoned and separated from Jo.
Six years later in the Sussex farmhouse, Bill and Jo find themselves cut off by growing numbers of triffids...
Bill and Jo try to find refuge from the panic-stricken streets of London and the dangers of the triffids.
His sight restored, Bill sees the new world of blindness and panic menaced by triffids...