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Title details for The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman - Available

The Necromancer's House

by Christopher Buehlman
Todd Haberkorn
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"You think you got away with something, don't you? But your time has run out. We know where you are. And we are coming."

The man on the screen says this in Russian.

"Who are you?"

The man smiles, but it's not a pleasant smile.

The image freezes.

The celluloid burns exactly where his mouth is, burns in the nearly flat U of his smile. His eyes burn, too.

The man fades, leaving the burning smiley face smoldering on the screen.

"Oh Christ," Andrew says.

The television catches fire.

Andrew Ranulf Blankenship is a handsome, stylish nonconformist with wry wit, a classic Mustang, and a massive library. He is also a recovering alcoholic and a practicing warlock, able to speak with the dead through film. His house is a maze of sorcerous booby traps and escape tunnels, as yours might be if you were sitting on a treasury of Russian magic stolen from the Soviet Union thirty years ago. Andrew has long known that magic was a brutal game requiring blood sacrifice and a willingness to confront death, but his many years of peace and comfort have left him soft, more concerned with maintaining false youth than with seeing to his own defense. Now a monster straight from the pages of Russian folklore is coming for him, and frost and death are coming with her.

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  • Release date

    October 28, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781452697154
      • File size: 319171 KB
      • Duration: 11:04:56

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This novel of powerful magic and magicians takes some effort to get through but is worth it. Todd Haberkorn is an engaging narrative guide. The hero, Andrew Blankenship, is a powerful and equally disturbed warlock who is targeted for death by old Russian wizards and witches for the theft of a trove of ancient magic books. Todd Haberkorn, a veteran actor in dozens of animé animated adventures, does a mean Russian accent when necessary, and his mermaid voice is a wonder to the ear. He paints an audio picture of a shadowy world in which magic spells, curses, and myth come together in the unseen underground of upstate New York. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from August 12, 2013
      A Russian man’s drowning launches this rambunctious magical melee. Buehlman (Those Across the River) pits Andrew Blankenship and Anneke Zautke, companions in witchcraft and Alcoholics Anonymous, against Russian ogress Baba Yaga, whose son, Misha, falls prey to mischievous water sprite Nadia, a friend (of sorts) of Andrew’s. Contrasting with exotic magical escapades, real-world losses haunt both Anneke and Andrew. As the threat from Baba Yaga mounts and bad things happen to Andrew’s sidekicks, the eponymous house no longer provides a certain refuge. The logic of the plot is eclipsed by the eruption of characters who evoke Dickensian whimsy and range from the merely unusual to the bizarrely imaginative. Within this magical universe, rivalries, revenge, and self-seeking contend with the willingness to sacrifice. The final confrontation, evolving in part from Andrew’s prior service to Baba Yaga and her daughter Marina’s defiance, wreaks an ambiguous ending in an explosion of enthralling fantasy. The vibrant, bracing atmosphere easily overpowers any niggling concerns about a few incongruous incidents.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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