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King of the Dead (1996)

1996 · Gene DeWeese · 315 pages · Japan

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Once a powerful human wizard, Firan Zal'honan is transformed into Azalin, the King of the Dead, an anguished undead ruler with limitless dark powers, who can neither gain his own freedom nor bring back to life his long-dead son. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Gene DeWeeseAuthor

A 1996 title built around Fantasy, Gothic Horror and Horror. Directed by Gene DeWeese.

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Tapestry of Dark Souls (2013)Jonathan must destroy the Gathering Cloth, a web in which the darkest evils of Ravenloft are trapped, before the evil breaks him and dooms him to eternal darkness. By the author of Blood Rites.

To Sleep With Evil (2013)Desperate to escape the terrors of Ravenloft, Marguerite came to Lord Donskoy's castle full of hope for the future. Instead, she found herself betrothed to a mysterious purveyor of flesh whose secret past, like the dead, refused to stay buried. Now Donskoy's marriage has invoked a dark curse, and Marguarite into a web of fear and passion.

Mordenheim (1994)Two young necromancers agree to assist Victor Mordenheim in his efforts to revive his dead wife, but the doctor's previous creation is determined to stop their work

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