FEATURE · SOUTHERN GOTHIC FANTASY / FAMILY DRAMA
KING OF THE DEAD
A lonely repairman discovers a door where the dead can be reclaimed at the cost of twenty-five living years per hour; after bringing four family members back, he spends a lifetime trying to defeat the one loss the bargain cannot undo.
A man gets the thing almost everybody who has buried someone has wanted: one more hour. The price is twenty-five years of his own life, and knowing the price does not make him rational.
