Dead Man Vol 1, The (Dead Man, 1)

Matthew Cahill is a simple man leading a quiet life...until he is tragically killed in an avalanche at a ski resort. Three months later his corpse is found and sent to the morgue....But then something inexplicable happens. He wakes up.Now he can see evil...as a festering rot that eats people alive from the inside out. And he can see Mr. Dark, the horrific figure who gleefully spreads it like a plague...and who is the only one who can tell Matt whether he is still a man...or the walking dead.For Matt, each day is a journey into a supernatural world he knows nothing about...a quest for the answers to who he is and what he has become...and a bloody fight to save us, and his soul, from the clutches of pure evil.Here are the first three unforgettable novels in Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin’s The Dead Man saga—“Face of Evil,” “Ring of Knives,” and “Hell in Heaven”—a horrifying new series that Post-Modern Pulps hails as “a direct spiritual descendant of the sorts of awesome pulp action adventure tales that the greats like Robert E. Howard loved to write!”

darned if the books aren’t funny. To put it in a nutshell, I simply couldn’t put them down. No, really, I mean it. Literally. Once I started, I read each one through in a single night, which isn’t usual for me. And now I’m hooked on the series. My God, what’s happening to me?

“I don’t like horror novels. I don’t much care for the fantasy genre. And buckets of gore put me off. So how come I read two of these books? I’ll be honest with you: I was sort of trapped into it (don’t ask). And what do you know, I loved them, notwithstanding the above. First of all, Goldberg and Rabkin are keen observers and fine writers. Exposition, dialogue, plotting, description…they’re all first-rate: economical, coherent, and convincing. And Mathew Cahill is a genuinely intriguing character. And―to my surprise

Aaron Elkins, author of The Worst Thing, Uneasy Relations, and The Dark Place

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About the Author

Lee Goldberg earned his bachelor’s degree in communications from UCLA while working as a freelance journalist for such publications as American Film, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. He earned two Edgar Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of America. His television writing and producing credits include SeaQuest, Diagnosis Murder, and Monk. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his family.William Rabkin is a two-time Edgar Award nominee who writes the Psych series of novels and is the author of Writing the Pilot. He has consulted for studios in Canada, Germany, and Spain on television series production and teaches screenwriting at UCLA Extension. He is also an adjunct professor at the UC Riverside’s low-residency master’s program.James Daniels is a labor organization attorney who performed Shakespeare in London, received a Grammy nomination for his audio book narration, and wrote the hard-boiled noir mystery Ghost Bride. He and his family live in the Midwest.Luke Daniels is a professional actor who has performed at various repertory theatres around the country, with an emphasis on Shakespeare. His many audiobook credits range from action and suspense to young adult and adult fiction,including works by Philip Roth and John Updike. He currently resides in the Midwest.

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