Blood Follows

In a plague-ridden city of corpses and desperate people, a mortician named Emancipor Reese is hired by two unusual gentlemen seeking a manservant. Bauchelain is a necromancer of refined manners and absolute immorality. Korbal Broach is his silent partner, whose hobbies involve things best left unexamined.

Blood Follows is the first novella in the Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series: dark comedy operating at the intersection of noir and horror, where the most monstrous characters are also the most competent and the most entertaining.

Erikson deploys the duo as a kind of grotesque relief valve — their adventures are standalone and slim, written between mainline novels, and showcase a side of the Malazan world that is pitch-black and gleefully absurd.