title: How to be Death (A Calliope Reaper-Jones Novel)
author:  Amber Benson 
description: AMBER BENSON co-created, co-wrote, and directed the animated supernatural web-series <i>Ghosts of Albion</i> with Christopher Golden, followed by a series of novels including <i>Witchery</i> and <i>Accursed</i>, and the novella <i>Astray</i>. Benson and Golden also co-authored the novella <i>The Seven Whistlers</i>. As an actress, she has appeared in dozens of roles in feature films, TV movies, and television series, including the fan favorite role of Tara Maclay on three seasons of <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>. Benson wrote, produced, and directed the feature films <i>Chance and Lovers, Liars, and Lunatics</i>.
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  Fear
  
  the
  
  Reaper
  
  Tom Lloyd
  
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  Copyright © 2015 Tom Lloyd-Williams
  
  Tom Lloyd-Williams asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of
  this book.
  
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  All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real
  persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  Paperback ISBN 978-1-909845-75-6
  
  Cover art by Nele Diel  
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  For Fiona, Ailsa and Cadfael
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HIS EYES SHONE with starlight. The raging night was his mantle and jagged
  constellations crowned him. The dead lay prostrate at his feet. The living
  were supp