The hollow dead

First Title Value for Searching:

The hollow dead

Personal Author:

Coates, Darcy

Physical Description:

299 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

Gravekeeper ; 4

Genre:

Paranormal fiction.

Horror fiction.

Summary:

"When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal world, and that sinister mask-wearing men were hunting her. She had no idea what she'd done to earn their hatred or what dangerous secrets she may have uncovered. Until now. Peeling back layer upon layer of the mystery surrounding her origins, Keira has finally learned that the strange masked men work for Artec, an organization profiting off spectral energy produced by hundreds of chained, tormented souls. Their goal is to spread their macabre cemeteries across the world, using the agony of the dead to extend their power and reach--and only Keira and her loyal group of friends have a hope of stopping them. But there are still mysteries to uncover in Keira's foggy memories, and as she prepares to fight for the souls of the tormented dead, what she doesn't know about her own past may ultimately come back to haunt her"--

Subject Term:

Amusement parks -- Fiction.

Corporations -- Fiction.

Precognition -- Fiction.

Spirits -- Fiction.

Ghost stories

Horror tales

Publication Info:

Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, 2024.

Subject:

Amusement parks -- Fiction.

Corporations -- Fiction.

Precognition -- Fiction.

Spirits -- Fiction.

Ghost stories

Horror tales

Paranormal fiction.

Horror fiction.

Funparks

Theme parks

Business corporations

C corporations

Corporations, Business

Corporations, Public

Limited companies

Publicly held corporations

Publicly traded corporations

Public limited companies

Stock corporations

Subchapter C corporations

Second sight

Invisible world

Ghost stories -- Juvenile fiction

Ghosts -- Fiction

Ghosts -- Juvenile fiction

Horror -- Fiction

Horror -- Juvenile fiction

Horror fiction

Horror stories

Horror tales -- Fiction

Horror tales -- Juvenile fiction

Scary stories

Scary tales

Tales, Horror

Terror -- Fiction

Terror -- Juvenile fiction

Terror tales

SAILS ISBN:

9781728239248

Available:

Library	Shelf Number	Shelf Location	Status
Searching... Mansfield Public Library	FIC COATES	NEW BOOK SHELF	Searching... Unknown
Searching... New Bedford Howland-Green Branch	FIC COATES	NEW FICTION	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

"Fans of eerie ghost stories will be hooked."- Publishers Weekly for The Whispering Dead

When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things- that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal world, and that sinister mask-wearing men were hunting her. She had no idea what she'd done to earn their hatred or what dangerous secrets she may have uncovered.
Until now.

Peeling back layer upon layer of the mystery surrounding her origins, Keira has finally learned that the strange masked men work for Artec, an organization profiting off spectral energy produced by hundreds of chained, tormented souls. Their goal is to spread their macabre cemeteries across the world, using the agony of the dead to extend their power and reach-and only Keira and her loyal group of friends can stop them. But there are still mysteries to uncover in Keira's foggy memories, and as she prepares to fight for the souls of the tormented dead, what she doesn't know about her own past may come back to haunt her.

More in The Gravekeeper Series by Darcy Coates-
The Whispering Dead , Book 1
The Ravenous Dead , Book 2
The Twisted Dead , Book 3

Reviews (2)

Kirkus Review

Australian author Coates ups the ante yet again in the fourth installment of her Gravekeeper series. Since Keira Collis is the only one in the town of Blighty with second sight, she's the natural person for Victorian spirit Cora Wentworth to approach with a complaint when they meet in Pleasant Grove Cemetery: She's been buried under the wrong name. A little poking around reveals that Cora was married to Phillip Wentworth, a noted poet who wasn't much of a provider or helpmeet, and she'd prefer that her headstone carry her maiden name of Cora Yates instead. Pastor Adage, who's provided Keira with a home ever since she arrived in Blighty with memories extending back only as far as faceless people hunting her, says he'll replace headstones only if they've been damaged. But that's a small problem compared to the epic crimes associated with the shady conglomerate Artec. Aided by her new friends Zoe and Mason, Keira's eluded Artec in the past, but now the evil empire, which is seeking to take over Pleasant Grove as the latest move in its global scheme to harness the dead for data and energy, is competing unofficially with freelance sociopath Gavin Kelsey to see who can be the first to destroy Keira for good. Coates provides just enough information about earlier installments to give newbies the grounding they need, but her target audience is clearly fans who don't care how thinly imagined her characters are in light of their expected lifespans. No, the dead won't stay buried. Would you? Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

Coates is back with the fourth installment in her Gravekeeper series (after The Twisted Dead, 2023). Keira, as the ghost-seeing caretaker of a graveyard, is consistently pulled into a local mystery as well as the ongoing investigation into her past that she still doesn't remember clearly. In the previous books, Keira and her friends uncovered the fact that Keira used to work for Artec, an organization that is using the energy of the dead for its own purposes. Keira, in the past, has avoided directly confronting the organization because it is dangerous, but now she is ready for answers. Finding these answers leads the team into an abandoned theme park, which lends a creepy layer to the book. Readers will enjoy this extension of the "big bad" story line started with the first book in the series (The Whispering Dead, 2021). Fans of the series will also enjoy getting to spend more time with the fun, quirky characters of Keira and her friends, Mason and Zoe, and even the florist's goth son, Harry.