The
Corpse-Rat King by Lee Battersby is published in
September by Angry Robot (£7.99):
“Marius don Hellespont and his apprentice,
Gerd, are professional looters of battlefields. When they stumble upon the
corpse of the King of Scorby, and Gerd is killed, Marius is mistaken for the
monarch by one of the dead soldiers and is transported down to the Kingdom of
the Dead.
Just like the living citizens, the dead
need a King — after all, the King is God’s representative, and someone needs to
remind God where they are. And so it comes to pass that Marius is banished to
the surface with one message: if he wants to recover his life he must find the
dead a King. Which he fully intends to do. Just as soon as he stops running
away.”
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