The Edinburgh Dead - Brian Ruckley [155]
K’rina subsided into silence, muffling her grief.
“He’s right in one thing,” someone else said. “We are afraid of him.”
“There is no shame in that. He is stronger in the Shared than anyone we have seen in years, even if he lacks the knowledge to use that strength as he might. When he was only playing cruel games, whispering in ears and working a child’s tricks, we might overlook it. But now… the girl still cries in the night. If he remained amongst us there would be greater sorrow in the end.”
“Wherever he goes in the world, there will be greater sorrow,” said a man with wild, dark spirals etched upon his face. “It would have been better to put an end to him. Blood will fill that one’s footprints. Wherever he goes.”
Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Extras
Meet the Author
Interview
A Preview of WINTERBIRTH
I The Demonstration
II The Dead Man
III The Scavenger and the Professor
IV New Town
V Hougoumont
VI Dancing with the Uncle
VII The Duddingston Ice
VIII Calder’s
IX The Holy Land
X The Resurrection Men
XI The Antiquaries
XII Mr. Audubon’s Exhibition
XIII The Hounds of the Old Town
XIV Surgeon’s Square
XV Robinson’s Last Day
XVI Coffee
XVII Cold Burn Farm
XVIII Quire’s Last Day
XIX Old Acquaintance
XX The Widow
XXI The Witch of Leith
XXII The House of Major Weir
XXIII Durand
XXIV Masquerade
XXV Kites
XXVI Cold Burn Farm II
XXVII All Hallows’ and All Saints’
XXVIII A Witch at His Bedside
XXIX Melville Street
XXX Nobody Sees William Hare
XXXI Burke’s Last Day
XXXII Two Sergeants
XXXIII The Annan Road
Acknowledgments
By Brian Ruckley
Copyright
By Brian Ruckley
The Godless World
Winterbirth
Bloodheir
Fall of Thanes
The Edinburgh Dead
Copyright
Published by Hachette Digital
ISBN: 978-0-7481-1526-6
All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Brian Ruckley
Excerpt from Winterbirth copyright © 2006 by Brian Ruckley
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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Table of Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Extras
Meet the Author
Interview
A Preview of WINTERBIRTH
I The Demonstration
II The Dead Man
III The Scavenger and the Professor
IV New Town
V Hougoumont
VI Dancing with the Uncle
VII The Duddingston Ice
VIII Calder’s
IX The Holy Land
X The Resurrection Men
XI The Antiquaries
XII Mr. Audubon’s Exhibition
XIII The Hounds of the Old Town
XIV Surgeon’s Square
XV Robinson’s Last Day
XVI Coffee
XVII Cold Burn Farm
XVIII Quire’s Last Day
XIX Old Acquaintance
XX The Widow
XXI The Witch of Leith
XXII The House of Major Weir
XXIII Durand
XXIV Masquerade
XXV Kites
XXVI Cold Burn Farm II
XXVII All Hallows’ and All Saints’
XXVIII A Witch at His Bedside
XXIX Melville Street
XXX Nobody Sees William Hare
XXXI Burke’s Last Day
XXXII Two Sergeants
XXXIII The Annan Road
Acknowledgments
By Brian Ruckley
Copyright