The Bone Magician Author:F.E. Higgins Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labeled a suspect in a rash of murders.�Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher, making sure people are really dead before they?re buried. The body he?s supposed to be watching tonight is currently surrounded by three people... more » engaged in a most unusual ceremony. An old man, a bone magician, and his young female assistant are waking a woman so her grieving fianc� can have one last goodbye with her. Pin can?t believe it will work, but then the dead woman sits up and speaks.���� Pin is determined to discover how the magic works.�He cannot believe they are raising the dead. He cannot believe his father is a murderer. Then Pin himself nearly becomes the killer?s next victim.���� As this mysterious tale unfolds with delicious creepiness, Pin will learn more about the bone magician, the girl Juno, and a hideous creature called the Gluttonous Beast that is kept in a local tavern where people pay for a glimpse of it.« less