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An omnibus collection of some of the stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series.
Including Memento Mori
The unnamed Mortimer, the king of the Grim Reapers, tells the story of how he promised to protect the son of a friend who died long before the Magicians came out.
He appears to him as a friend when the son's relatives die at their funeral, and as a friend when he needs one.
He becomes the ultimate Memento Mori.
An
...3) Times Change
Dr Blak Alexander aka Mortimer is caught by the police saving his son's life his mugshot is a hit with the police He must confront his great uncle the policeman magician with the truth he is dead and has been protecting his son from the law. How will the policeman react? How far will their friends go to help save them?
A reworked version of Caught Dead and Out of Time.as one extended story
4) Shadow Play
Shadow Play
Blake Alexander and his son Lance the Necromancer meet a celebrity ghost Federici the ghost who haunts Melbourne's famous Princess Theater ghost because he spooked a reaper who was taking him to the afterlife.
"You don't know the Phantom of the Opera?" Blake chuckled.
"Yeah Gaston Leroux wrote it and it was performed here as a musical yonks ago. He is not real," said Lance.
"No not that one
...Blake "The Grinch" Alexander, the Grim Reaper, called the King of Death and Christmas Grinch. He was cursed with having a boss who loved Christmas when he despised the season of joy. He was made a tool of the season, making Blake feel like a fool. His son the Necromancer is making the season any better for him either.
Not a kids story
Reworked Omnibus of stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series, such as this Dark Fantasy-Gothic short story;
The Locket And The Thief
What if you lost the last physical thing that reminds you of a lost beloved child through theft, and it happens to be found upon the body of the now dead thief, and it is now in the hands of the police would you if you had access to would you take it back? Is stealing back your own stolen thing,
...The King of Doom is a superhero he has a vision and tries to stop it from happening as tries he is knocked out and gets amnesia and sees the vision in his memory he thinks he is the perpetrator of the murder he sees and goes on the run or tries. Doom has forgotten who he is. The killer has him. 4 days have passed before his father the Necromancer misses him and starts looking for him will he still be alive when he finds the killer?
The Picture of Death
Aureus Argent aka Gabriel Drac, (the former Masked Chicken) a Magician paints a picture of Blake as a human magician he is the emperor of the magicians, and as a birthday present for Blake, it ends up in his afterlife office, where he is to have a reporter doing an article on him by order of Fate, his boss. How bad can this go? Really bad! But how bad? (last story in book not series)
this book has tons more good
...The Haunting of the Necromancer
A hilarious farce.
When the King of the Grim Reapers' son needs help to take a ghost haunting his home, he asks his father to help remove it, but was it a mistake?
The Necromancer Goes To Jail
Lance goes to jail as the Necromancer to help the police. His father goes into hiding to avoid being deposed as emperor of the solar system. How will Lance take being in jail,
11) The Shaman
"Hello, my son is possessed," a man said on the phone to a Shaman.
"What proof do you have?" asked the Shaman.
"He is acting like a psychopath he is disrespectful and dangerous and he rambles about being an avenging angel." moaned a man in a lab coat and glasses.
"Has he spoken to a doctor he sounds like he needs a psychologist, not a Shaman," said the Shaman.
"His doctor thinks he needs to be convinced he's been exorcised
...A Really short Magicians story.
"Dad tell me again why we a digging a grave?" Lance Alexander asked his Dad Blake Alexander.
"We're burying your latest victim," Blake snapped back.
"Ha! Ha," returned Lance not at all amused.
"Fate has decreed we reapers must do graveyard duty for the next week he called it grave diggers appreciation month," moaned Blake who was in grim reaper form as his son was.
"This is insane!"
...Hello darkness, my old friend
Blake said in a dark room alone in the afterlife wonder what brought him to be there lost in thoughts of darkness and sadness as he quite often did when he had time to himself. Listening to his favorite Coldplay album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends song 42 was playing when in barged a grim reaper with a ghost. He was spooked for a moment only startled.
He'd seen them before the Reaper was his assistant
14) Blind Faith
Dr Death the coroner and grim reaper king his with and son a serial killer are superheros they trying to find another serial killer in a hospital where the Doctor and his wife work. Their son plays bait for the killer who kills magician. Will they catch the killer or will Dr Death have to take his son to the afterlife.
15) The Dark Side
Really dark The Magicians Omibus
Includes:
The Lord Of Hell,
In Your Dreams,
There Is Only One Masked Chicken,
Charon? Thanatos? What?
The Alien Abduction,
The Innocent Killer,
The Necromancer Goes to Jail,
Danse Macabre,
The Last Dance,
The Grudge,
and OlderMort
It was a strange day when Blake Alexander found out about this odd case everyone at his hospital wanted to decorate the hospital for Christmas drunk on the Christmas cheer.
But that was nothing the reapers were trying to get the after life business in line with fate's decree that they celebrate Christmas with reapers collecting people as Santa clauses which Blake was totally against. To him it was an anathema. He felt like scrooge It was
...A collection of short stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series.
Everyone Is An Alien Somewhere
Mishio Ga is an alien on Earth he finds the culture and people there more alien than him even odder are the locals the Emperor of the galaxy's alien family the Magicians, who run the alien convention Mishio must traverse in order to stop an alien war.
In Life
Have you ever wondered what life was like for a
...Will this killer scare him to death or kill him?
Lance Alexander Sr sat singing along with his car radio as he waited to pick up his son Jr. He was totally distracted by the music. He didn't see the man jump in his car til it was too late. "What are you doing in my car," said Lance noticing him.
"Drive!" said the stranger coldly.
"I'm waiting for my son hit the road, Jack!" said Lance he hadn't time for this guy.
"Forget
..."What are you doing in a lonely blind ally in the city at night?" asked the father of a very suspicious character, a man in black wearing a long black trench coat he was wanted as a serial killer.
"Go away I'm working Dad," hissed the son Lance.
"I won't," said the father hoping to prevent a murder.
"Go away I don't need skeletons coming out of closets and getting in
...20) Danse Macabre
The Show Must Go On
When stage magician Blake Alexander aka Blake Fire who has a grim reaper for a soul senses someone in his audience is going to die he dances between life and death to not collect them with all his strength he must live and not take them to the afterlife because when his soul is released his body dies and he can't die on stage in front of the world let alone come back to life.
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