{Written for NaNo and Camp NaNo between 2020 and 2022.}
How to study necromancy, accidentally start the zombie apocalypse, and discover the skeletons hidden in your family's closet: a guide by Abihira Sinistrah.
(Or: why you should always read the f...
螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后 (táng láng bǔ chán, huáng què zài hòu) Chinese, "the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind". Idiom meaning to pursue gains in front of you while ignoring danger behind.
When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour. -- Agatha Christie, Towards Zero
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(Credit for pic: screenshot from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)
(Fun fact: this book's title was originally a working title for Totentanz book three, which is why it's longer than the previous one-word titles.)
