The Life of Death

She nearly died on the operating table... masked men removed the cancers, and her womb...but Elaine Rider lived on, mourning.  Until, after a midnight visit tot he newly opened crypt of All Saints  Church -- a plague pit heaped with bodies, festering now they are exposed -- she is suddenly a picture of health and vitality...of The Life of Death. Kavanagh's morbid preference was for the sad, fragile Elaine he met before.  Before she had the power to kill with her touch.  But who is Kavanagh? Elaine mistakes him for Death in disguise, her clean-boned guardian, her promised lover.  He is something far worse, as she will learn...   Also includes an adaptation by Steve Niles of Clive Barker's  New Murders on the Rue Morguer,  illustrated by Hector Gomez.