title: Court of the Dead: The Chronicle of the Underworld
author: Tom Gilliland
description: "In Sideshows new property,<i>Court of the Dead</i>, the underworld contains multitudes: processing station, de-militarized zone, bohemian art enclave. Here, the underworld was originally founded by Death as a buffer zone between Heaven and Hell, but is now on the path to becoming an independent, self-determined kingdom full of weirdos and misfits trying to find a place in the celestial cosmos outside of the eternal war between Heaven and Hell."<br /> <br /> Entertainment Weekly Online
zlib_text: ALSO BY MARK T. BARNES
  
  
  
  
  
  _**The Echoes of Empire series**_
  
  
  
  
  
  _**Book One: The Garden of Stones**_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
  by the author.
  
  
  
  
  
  Text copyright © 2013 Mark Barnes  
  
  
  All rights reserved.  
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
  recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by 47North – Seattle, Washington
  
  
  
  
  
  [www.apub.com](http://www.apub.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN-13: 9781477807606  
  
  
  ISBN-10: 1477807608  
  
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2013936768
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover illustrated by Stephan Martiniere
  
  
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  _To the family and friends who never questioned that this was what I should
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  To the storytellers, past and present, who lit the w