Raising the Dead

About this story

Raising the Dead is a free St Mary's Halloween story published on Jodi Taylor's own website. Its introductory description gives the essential premise: the institute accidentally raises the dead during its celebrations.

Readers can follow the link to the author's page and read the story there, without buying an ebook or collection.

In the site's view, the reason to choose it is the setting of the disaster. Halloween at the institute brings the danger into the historians' own festivities, rather than sending them abroad on another assignment.

The premise is immediate, and the online format makes this a convenient extra for readers already following the later St Mary's adventures.

It sits among the short works after The Good, the Bad and the History, near Lights! Camera! Mayhem! and Murder at Martingale Manor. Use the author's original text for this brief reading detour; the nearby book links then return you to the published sequence.

Its length is that of an online short story, rather than a numbered novel.