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Hrafn has seen too much. He welcomes death as the flames lick at the staves carved into his skin. Until a stranger pulls him out. Siggi has never left his village. He longs to go in search of his missing brother. Perhaps that's why he pulls the witch boy from the fire. Bound by a blade of bone and indebted to the village boy, Hrafn agrees to use his powerful magic to help the oaf who saved him from the pyre. Across (and sometimes under) a rugged and unforgiving landscape, the unlikely pair will travel in search of answers, crossing paths with druids, darkwolves, and the dreaded Huldu.

In the fall of 1991, Zooey Orson transfers to the Blackfriars School for Boys hoping for a fresh start following a scandal at his last school. Before he knows it, he’s fallen in with a group of boys who all share the same secret, one which they can only express openly within the safety of the clandestine gatherings of the Vicious Circle—the covert club for gay students going back decades. But when the boys unwittingly happen upon the headmaster’s copy of an arcane occult text, they unleash an eldritch secret so terrible, it threatens to consume them all.

Sogar die Toten haben ihre eigenen Schauergeschichten. Gemeinsam haben Charlie und Sam die Geister von York gerettet. Nun können sie endlich ein normales Paar sein – wenn es so etwas denn gibt. Doch dann werden sie Zeugen eines brutalen Angriffs und erkennen, dass eine neue Gefahr in den Schatten lauert. Eine Gefahr, die größer ist als jede zuvor – und die es auf die Lebenden abgesehen hat. Außerdem treibt sich die geheimnisvolle Organisation "Die Hand" in der Stadt herum. Bald schon geraten Charlie und seine Freunde zwischen die Fronten und dieses Mal steht das Leben aller auf dem Spiel ...