num_pages: 272
description:  A collection of original short stories based on the hit TV series created by Joss Whedon I can't be...just a personI can't be helpless like that....--Buffy HelplessAt eighteen each Slayer must face a terrifying trial: the Tento di Cruciamentum. This time-honored albeit cruel rite of passage forces each Watcher to drain the Slayer of all her physical powers and then send her to vanquish a powerful vampire using only her wits. When Buffy Summers underwent her Cruciamentum she managed to defeat Kralik a vampire who had been committed to a sanitarium as a human for torturing and murdering more than a dozen young women before he was turned. However not all Slayers have been so cunning.Tales of the Slayer Vol. 4 chronicles the Cruciamentum of eight earlier Slayers. From Prohibition Chicago to beatnik New York City from the sideshows of a traveling carnival to a small Irish farm from the fifteenth century to the twentieth the Cruciamentum has tested the prowess of Slayers throughout history. Each of them has had to fight: for her job for the lives of those she loved and for her own existence....Contents:It's All About the Mission Harlem New York 1973 / Nancy HolderUndeadsville New York 1952 / Michael ReavesAlone 1876 Ireland / Scott AllieSideshow Slayer Duluth Minnesota 1911 / Greg CoxSurvivors Chicago 1919 / Kristine Kathryn RuschBack to the Garden 1969 / Robert Joseph LevyThe Rule of Silence Seville Spain 1481 / Kara DalkeyTwo Teenage Girls at the Mall Keller Nebraska 1981 / Jane Espenson
language: English
title: Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 4
publisher: Simon Pulse