War of the Dead

The dead stayed.Now everyone wants to decide what that means.After thirteen impossible midnights, the boundary between Earth and the Halloween Cabinet has changed forever. The dead can remain. The Unwritten can be remembered. Roads between worlds no longer obey the old rules.And almost immediately, people begin drawing borders.Common Ground becomes the center of a growing conflict between the living, the dead, the Bone Parliament, Dracula's Protectorate, recovery forces, and the ancient Wild Hunt, which still considers every dead soul without a recognized road to be quarry.Ichabod Crane, Gus, Adam, Dracula, Van Helsing, Mother Market, Death, the Headless Horseman, Jack, and the others are forced into a war where every side believes it is protecting someone.Graves become territory.Memory becomes law.Protection becomes sovereignty.And beneath every flag, the First Wrath begins learning a new word:Enemy.The War of the Dead is Book Four of The Halloween Cabinet, a gothic dark-fantasy horror novel about grief, memory, power, borders, choice, and what happens when the dead refuse to be treated as property.