The Last Necromancer of Marne Hall

Decades after six necromancy students disappeared, one is resurrected to reveal how forbidden magic and academic ambition came to a deadly head in this gothic fantasy debut.

On Christmas Eve, 1976, six necromancy apprentices and their professor disappeared from the secluded Marne Hall manor in the North Sea, leaving behind a startling crime scene. Fifty years later, the Marne Hall Massacre remains one of the greatest mysteries in magical history.

In the present day, an aspiring necromancer haphazardly resurrects one of the apprentices, Daphne Carraway, using only a finger. Now back in the realm of the living, Daphne recounts how she and her classmates studied with the last living necromancer, the reclusive Dr. Elliot J. Serpentine, only to make a major mistake that disrupted the trajectory of their education.

What unfolds is a semester of academic rivalries, romantic entanglements, and deadly competition, because the truth of Marne Hall’s dark past has far-reaching consequences for the future of magic.

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