I am Legend

The story takes place between January 1976 and January 1979 in Southern California. The novel opens with the monotony and horror of the daily life of the protagonist, Robert Neville. Neville is apparently the only survivor of an apocalypse caused by a pandemic of bacteria, the symptoms of which are similar to vampirism. Every day he repairs his house, boarding up windows, stringing and hanging garlic, disposing of vampires' corpses on his lawn and, going out to gather any additional supplies needed for hunting and killing more vampires.