The Dead Man Volume 7
Crucible of Fire, the Dark Need, and the Rising Dead
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After dying in a freak accident, Matt Cahill inexplicably "wakes up" three months later with the disturbing ability to see things--terrible things--that others cannot. Drafted as a warrior in the battle between good and evil, Matt will stop at nothing to destroy the malevolent Mr. Dark. In The Dead Man Volume 7, a trio of sinister new stories tracks the reluctant hero on his nightmarish quest.
Matt Cahill is part of a team of smokejumpers who are dropped into the heart of a raging forest fire that is fueled by a flamethrower-wielding madman under the sway of Mr. Dark. Almost every living thing in this hellacious Crucible of Fire, including Matt's fellow firefighters, are falling prey to Mr. Dark's evil touch and bowing to his furious command: Kill the Dead Man!
Matt is tracking a blood-sucking, shape-shifting killer through the icy Cascade Mountains when he encounters a mysterious woman who is on the same corpse-strewn trail...but who has a terrifying secret of her own...and an unspeakable lust for The Dark Need.
In the blasted hell of the Arizona desert, Matt hitches a ride with a young couple who meets a terrible fate that he's powerless to stop. The bloody encounter leads him to a deadly stranger who may know why Matt became part of The Rising Dead. But first they must survive in an unforgiving wasteland to do battle with a gang of heavily-armed smugglers who trade in human flesh.
Stant Litore
Stant Litore was born a farmer's son in the Pacific Northwest. He eventually earned his PhD in English, but remains passionate for things that grow. He spent several years in a dim corner of a library, repairing bruised and battered books, before heading overseas to backpack through Europe. Haunted by the hunger and poverty he witnessed at home and abroad, he began spinning stories about the hungers that devour us and the hopes that preserve us. Today he lives in Colorado with his wife and their two daughters, writing about the restless dead and the restless living.
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Stella Green
Stella Green is a former entertainment executive and the author of Awakening Snakes. She currently lives in Los Angeles and is working on her next book.
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Lee Matthew Goldberg
Lee Matthew Goldberg is the Anthony, Lefty, and Prix du Polar nominated author of sixteen novels, including The Ancestor, The Mentor, and The Great Gimmelmans. His writing has also appeared as a contributor in CrimeReads, Pipeline Artists, LitHub, Chicago Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Jewish Book Council, The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Mystery Tribune and others. He is also the publisher of Fringe Press.
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William Rabkin
William Rabkin is Professor of Screenwriting and Television Writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert, USA. He is a veteran television writer/ showrunner and author of the bestselling Writing the Pilot and its two sequels, along with another book on television writing and five novels.
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