@RUTGERS.ARPA:stever@cit-vax (04/26/85)
From: stever@cit-vax (Steve Rabin ) Kill The Dead, Tanith Lee, 1980, DAW paperback This book is in my opinion, by far the best of Tanith Lee's fantasy. If you've enjoyed the Cyrion stories, or the Quest for the White Witch, you wont want to miss this. It is the story of Parl Dro, exorcist. His father had been a soldier in some small border war big enough to kill him, and his mother had died awhile later, when he was about four years of age. When he was ten he was already working the fields. But as Parl Dro grows old he takes another name, and makes a trade dispeling the half dead. He comes to be feared by ghosts and their lovers. Ghostly existence requires a physical link in the living world, and when that link is transformed the ghost is released. This is the nature of Parl Dro's exorcisms. Parl Dro seeks the Ghyste Mortua, nexus of netherworld existence, and this book is the tale of that quest.