num_pages: 321
description: Four terror-inducing novellas from acclaimed bestselling authors Kelley Armstrong David Liss Christopher Golden and Jonathan Maberry beginning with the premise: A stranger comes to town offering to raise the townsfolks dearly departed from the deadfor a price.In Kelley Armstrongs Suffer the Children an acute diphtheria outbreak kills most of the children in an isolated village in nineteen-century Ontario. Then a stranger arrives and offers to bring the children back to life. He wants money of course an extravagant sum but more importantly but for each child resurrected one villager must voluntarily offer his life... In David Lisss A Bad Season for Necromancy a con man on the margins of eighteenth-century British society discovers a book that reveals the method for bringing the dead back to life. After considering just how far he would go to avoid bringing his violent father back he realizes the real value of this book. Instead of getting people to pay him to revive their departed he will get people to pay him not to...In Pipers by Christopher Golden the Texas Border Volunteers wage a private war against drug smuggling by Mexican cartels in a modern-day South Texas town complete with an indestructible army of the risen dead...In Alive Day by Jonathan Maberry a US Army sergeant must dive into the underworld of modern-day Afghanistan to try and barter for the release of his team never dreaming of the horrors that await him...
language: English
title: Four Summoner's Tales
publisher: Gallery Books