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    Kill the Dead

    By Tanith Lee

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    About this ebook

    For the first time in e-book format, a master dark fantasist spins tale of an exorcist who must face the restless undead.

    Parl Dro comes by night. A renowned and infamous exorcist, Parl Dro is known as the Ghost-Killer—the man who hunts down the deadalive and destroys them. For death is not always the end. With strong enough motive, the dead can return as ghosts, bound to a physical link from their once-living bodies. Left on their own, the deadalive feed off the living.
     
    But not everyone wants to give up their ghosts. While some buy his services and praise his work, others—like Ciddey Soban—hate the man who would deprive them of their beloved dead. When Parl Dro walks up the road to their house, Ciddey is determined to keep him from exorcising her sister—and vows vengeance against him if she fails.
     
    However, the Soban house is only one stop along the way to Parl Dro’s destination: Ghyste Mortua. Once a mountain town that was lost in a landslide, Ghyste Mortua is now a veritable ghost town, and Parl Dro aims to destroy it. Reluctantly accompanied by the musician Myal Lemyal—who hopes Ghyste Mortua will inspire his masterpiece—Parl Dro must challenge his beliefs both about ghosts and about himself, revealing secrets and confronting the truth of his past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDAW
    Release dateNov 2, 2021
    ISBN9780698404410
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    Kill the Dead
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    Tanith Lee

    Tanith Lee is one of the most prolific of modern fantasists, with more than a hundred books to her credit. Her most recent books are two new collections, Tempting the Gods and Hunting the Shadows.

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    • 3/5
      If you do a bit of a mental squint and use your imagination to smooth out the rough edges, this is a pretty good story. To put it in movie terms: it’s like LadyHawke meets The Sixth Sense.

      Parl Dro is a handsome ghost killer - he releases the undead who are clinging to the living and sends them to their final destination. Everything changes when Parl stops in a little town to deal with a pair of sisters, Cilny and Ciddey, one dead and one living. There his destiny is joined to the roguish pick-pocketing troubadour Myal, and together they journey to Ghyste Mortua, the ghost city in the mountains.

      Like all the other Lee books I have read, it is full of psychic power, supernatural sensuality, thwarted love, sadness and regrets.
    • 4/5
      Parl Dro is a killer of the dead--he releases the spirits of ghosts who refuse to depart the living. And one woman is not happy when he does so to her sister. She then dogs his steps, and a minstrel dogs her steps as Dro makes his way to a ghost city. Not a horror book in the scary, creepy sense and this is among Tanith Lee's more comedic books, laden with plenty of humor and wit--and with her sensuous, lyrical prose. A short book that reads quickly you could down in one sitting--and with a neat twist.
    • 5/5
      A ghost killer limps into town and exorcises the ghost of a girl, against the wishes of the girl's sister. The sister then kills herself and becomes deadalive in order to exact vengance against Parl Dro. Dro's steps are dogged by a minstrel who refuses to leave him alone, and all three of them follow the road to a whole town that died in a single landslide and who's ghosts terrorise the surrounding area. The interconnections between all the characters gets pretty complex, and the plot twists and turns around, driven by revenge and something like love. Beautifully written, as expected, but I'm not sure I followed all the twists.