The Halls of the Dead: A Novel by S. M. Hallow
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In Victorian London, necromancer Irene Shallcross Haley refuses to accept the death of Agnes, the woman she loves. When Irene succeeds in resurrecting her, she must confront a deadly hunger, a malignant spirit, and the complicated reality of loving both a resurrected woman and her undead husband. The Halls of the Dead is a darkly romantic Gothic fantasy of witches, resurrection, forbidden magic, and love that refuses to stay buried.
Description
London, December 1849.
Irene Shallcross Haley has devoted her life to necromancy, a forbidden and reviled art passed down through generations of witches through sentient grimoires bound in human skin. Alongside her undead husband, St. John, Irene has protected this dangerous knowledge while paying a terrible personal price in reputation, family, and soul.
Then Agnes, the woman Irene loves, is hanged for witchcraft.
Irene refuses to let Agnes become another thing the world has taken from her.
True resurrection has not been achieved in two thousand years, but Irene is determined to accomplish what generations of necromancers could not. With St. John’s help, she enters the Halls of the Dead and demands the return of the missing third of their strange triumvirate.
She gets Agnes back.
Unfortunately, Agnes’s resurrection comes with complications. She is consumed by a hunger for raw flesh, and a malignant ghost has become bound to her soul. Irene must find a way to restore the woman she loves while confronting the terrifying consequences of bringing the dead back to life.
And then there is St. John.
Irene must navigate her feelings for her resurrected lover alongside her extraordinary marriage to her undead husband, all while avoiding Sir Silas Underhill, the man responsible for sentencing Agnes to death.
Set in a necromancy-haunted Victorian London, The Halls of the Dead combines Gothic horror, dark fantasy, queer romance, witchcraft, resurrection, and impossible love. It asks a beautifully grim question: if death is not the end of love, what happens when love refuses to let death have the final word?
For readers who enjoy lush Victorian Gothic, supernatural horror, queer romance, necromancy, witches, and love stories where the grave is merely an inconvenient interruption.
Book Details
Author: S. M. Hallow
Title: The Halls of the Dead: A Novel
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0063446987
ISBN-13: 978-0063446988
Publication Date: 2026
Setting: London, 1849
Language: English
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