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Laylee, thirteen, is nearly worn out from washing and packaging corpses for the Otherwhere and being shunned by villagers when two strangers, Alice and Oliver, arrive determined to help.

When a faulty Bio-Mechanical malfunctions Elizabeth Lavenza--Ingold's first female medical student--jumps at the chance to fix it. However, she puts her life at risk when she realizes the Bio-Mechanical is Victor Frankenstein--a former student who mysteriously died.

"Odessa is one of Karthia's master necromancers, catering to the kingdom's ruling Dead. Whenever a noble dies, it's Odessa's job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. But there is a cost to being raised: the Dead must remain shrouded. If even a hint of flesh is exposed, the grotesque transformation begins, turning the Dead into terrifying, blood thirsty Shades. A dramatic uptick in Shade attacks raises suspicions and fears among Odessa's necromancer community. Soon a crushing loss of one of their own leaves Odessa shattered, and reveals a disturbing conspiracy in Karthia: Someone is intentionally creating Shades by tearing shrouds from the Dead--and training them to attack. Odessa is forced to contemplate a terrifying question: What if her magic is the weapon that brings the kingdom to its knees? Fight alongside her follow necromancers--and a powerful girl as enthralling as she is infuriating--Odessa must untangle the gruesome plot to destroy Karthia before the Shades take everything she loves"--Provided by publisher.

After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.

Not long after his thirteenth birthday, Ed Bagley wakes up and discovers he is a zombie, but while he is excited for the chance to "reinvent" himself, Ed finds life as a zombie dangerous, as his own disembodied arm seems determined to kill him, and Ed is forced to rely on Clive, a skeleton, and Max, a werewolf, to avoid dying a second time.

When the skeletons in the Spooksville cemetery start attacking children, Watch and his friends must travel underground and confront the Grim Reaper before he takes any more victims.

Beginning with an explanation of the historical origins of zombies, it follows their history straight through to the threat they pose to the world today.

Follows the dual story lines of Small Sam on his search for Ella and of Shadowman's discoveries about Saint George and the disease itself.

After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace.

"The conclusion to Daniel Kraus's saga about a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the earth for decades to come"--Provided by publisher.