Legion of the Dead

By Paul Stewart

Part of the Barnaby Grimes series

A rooftop adventurer hears eerie bells in a graveyard, hinting at a zombie uprising.

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225 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Barnaby Grimes, a daring rooftop courier, stumbles upon a chilling mystery in a graveyard. In a world where the dead might rise, the sound of bells signals a terrifying plot. As Barnaby navigates the shadows of his city, he must confront a legion of the undead. Can he unravel the secrets of the living and the dead before it's too late? The stakes are high, and the horrors are real in this spine-tingling adventure.

From the publisher

Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, high-stacking his way across the rooftops of his city in search of adventure and mystery. In each tale, he encounters a supernatural force and must battle the horrors that await him. In LEGION OF THE DEAD, Barnaby finds himself embroiled in a plot that includes a legion of zombies raised from the dead. In Dickensian times, people were terrified of being buried alive, and so were left in their coffin with a wire, attached to a bell, running from above the ground, down through the earth and the lid of the coffin, and tied to the little finger of the buried body. Those who found themselves awake in the darkness of their coffin could wiggle their finger and summon help. And so one night, Barnaby makes a shortcut through a graveyard and is horrified to hear the tinkling of dozens of little bells…

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