Blood Stone · #1
Kill the dead? How can you slay that which is already slain? Yet... sometimes the dead refuse to stay quiet.
For
there are times when the dead have a duty that must be fulfilled. There
are times when those must walk who defy God and Nature to do so; those
are times of horror and haunting.
Then one must call the
exorcist. There is work for the slayer of ghosts in the backlands of
the world. There is work for Parl Dro, Ghost-Killer.
This is
the story of two sisters who defied him. One did not belong on this
earth, one did. But which was the one he must kill? Which was the one
he must silence?
Tanith Lee has written in KILL THE DEAD a
marvelous novel of dark shadows and strange evils... a novel to place
alongside THE EXORCIST and THE STAND, a weird companion to SABELLA and
THE BIRTHGRAVE.
Tanith Lee (1947-2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980). She also wrote under the pseudonym Esther Garber.
