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The Laughing Corpse, Animator

Series: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
Authors: Laurell K. Hamilton, Jess Ruffner-Booth, Ron Lim, etc.
Publisher: Marvel
Year Published: 2009
Pages: 112
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3632-3


Smack dab in the middle of the country, St. Louis is home to the Gateway Arch--an iconic representation of the city's renown as the nexus point between East and West, and all those who would travel between the two halves of America. But in Laurell K. Hamilton's world of bestselling novels, it hosts a thriving community of undead, all of whom live out in the open with full civil rights and the protection of the law. It's also home to Anita Blake, a vampire hunter par excellence--an equalizer for humans when the vamps get out of line!

   But Anita's day job is as an Animator, able to resurrect the dead in the form of the walking dead--zombies! It is this talent that's suddenly made her very popular: First, local fat cat and reputed mob boss Harold Gaynor requests her services to raise a particularly old body back to life. The starting price is a million dollars, but Anita later learns the price of saying "no" just might be her life!

   Next, Anita goes up against an undead creature--a mad beast whose brute strength is unlike anything she's faced before. Ushered onto a murder scene by police Lieutenant Dolph Storr, she comes across a possible zombie slaughter that puts her on the trail of the killer. That leads to Dominga Salvador--the inimitable voodoo priestess of the Midwest and grand dame of St. Louis' zombie populating, and one of the most frightening people Anita has ever encountered! It's also a trail that uncovers a deep dark secret about her mentor, Manny Rodriguez, a fact from his past he always wanted to leave behind. But now that Anita knows, which is worse: What it reveals to her about Manny--or what it reveals about herself?

   Usually, it's the stubborn Anita delivering all the punch lines, especially when it comes from the barrel of her vamp-killing Browning Hi-Power semiautomatic. But will it be the laughing corpse who gets the last laugh this time around?


Graphic novel to the series: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter (#2)

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