The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach · Book 2

The Healthy Dead

by Steven Erikson

Published
1 April 2004
Pages
150
ISBN-13
9781597800068
Type
novella

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Cover of The Healthy Dead

About this book

The Healthy Dead followed in 2004, the trio's second gothic horror-comedy set-piece as they wander from Blood Follows' events toward the next doomed town, leaving chaos and reanimated horrors behind them. It runs 150 pages.

Its place in The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach

The Healthy Dead is book 2 in the The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series. It follows Blood Follows. It is followed by The Lees of Laughter's End. See the full The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach reading order.

A run of dark-comic novellas set in the Malazan world, following the necromancer Bauchelain, his monstrous and near-silent partner Korbal Broach, and their long-suffering manservant Emancipor Reese as they wander from one doomed town to the next, leaving chaos, corpses and reanimated horrors behind them. Where the main Malazan Book of the Fallen aims for tragic scale, these novellas are Erikson at his blackest and funniest -- gothic horror-comedy with the pitch-dark wit of a man who clearly enjoys writing…

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