The Healthy Dead
- Published
- 1 April 2004
- Pages
- 150
- ISBN-13
- 9781597800068
- Type
- novella
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.
Key facts about The Healthy Dead
Steven Erikson wrote The Healthy Dead, a novella on our list. It has been out since 1 April 2004. The book has 150 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novella. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781597800068 to find the main one.
The Healthy Dead is book 2 of 7 in The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series. The series has 7 published books. However, the series starts with Blood Follows (2002). Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 31 October 2020.
Additionally, Steven Erikson writes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy and Willful Child, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, No Life Forsaken is the latest published Steven Erikson book on file, from 23 October 2025.
About Steven Erikson
Steven Erikson is the pen name of Canadian author Steve Rune Lundin, a trained archaeologist and anthropologist whose academic background directly shaped his approach to epic fantasy. He is best known for the Malazan Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume series co-developed with collaborator Ian Cameron Esslemont from a shared tabletop role-playing campaign, beginning with Gardens of the Moon in 1999. See every Steven Erikson book in order.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597800068