title: The Haunted Realm: Echoes from Beyond the Tomb
author:  Simon Marsden 
description: Simon Marsden is an internationally acclaimed photographer; his work can be found in many important collections, including the Getty Museum in California.
zlib_text: > Dead Must Die
  
  A Short Novella of the Realms
  
  by
  
  C.M. Carney
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > Dead Must Die – A Short Novella of The Realms by C.M. Carney
  
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  © 2018 C.M. Carney
  
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  > Dedication
  
  To my sister, Melissa Luedke.
  
  Just so you have to read a dorky book.
  
  Love Ya Sis!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > 1
  
  Simon stared at the Barrow King’s throne for several long minutes as the
  conflicting feelings of anger and pride battled within him. It was a chair
  made from fused bones, which seemed perfect for an undead sorcerer whose real
  body had died millennia ago, but Simon wasn’t sure it was him. Of course these
  days he wasn’t sure what ‘him’ was.
  
  Was he the eons dead boy who’d been tortured and murdered? Was he the etern