ARI BERK

Los vikingos tenemos fama de ser sangrientos maleantes que infestamos los mares y aterrorizamos a los pueblos, pero en nuestra vida cabe mucho más. Para ser un buen vikingo, lo primero que debes hacer es entender nuestro mundo: aprende a leer runas ancestrales, aviva el fuego del hogar, celebra fiestas con nosotros y combate contra nuestros enemigos. Yo, Ari el Ilustrado, estoy dispuesto a abrir el cofre de nuestra sabiduria y enseñarte todo lo que se. Presta atencion a mis palabras, porque pronto la llamada del mar te invitara a que ices las velas y emprendas tus propias aventuras.

In the stunning conclusion to the Undertaken trilogy that Publishers Weekly called a thought-provoking gothic fantasy, Silas must master his powers and confront a past that is anything but dead.Silas Umber has returned from Arvale, his familys ancestral home. Frantic to retrieve the shade of his beloved Beatrice, he turns his back on the spectral chaos he has left behind, unaware that the malevolence he unleashed has followed him back to Lichport.As his family and friends suffer and fall at the hands of the vengeful Huntsman from Arvales sunken mansions, Silas must reach deep into his complicated bloodline to summon powers and wisdom beyond those required of a simple Lichport Undertaker. But the dark and painful secrets of his birth threaten to overwhelm him, and if he cant lay the ghosts of his own past to rest, Silas may lose everything and everyone he has grown to love and worked to protect.

They say the dead should rest in peace. Not all the dead agree. This start to The Undertaken trilogy is a thought-provoking gothic fantasy and a genuinely eerie tale (Publishers Weekly).When Silas Umbers father, Amos, doesnt come home from work one night, Silas discovers that his father was no mere mortician, but an Undertaker who worked to bring The Peace to lost and wandering souls. With Amos gone, Silas and his mother move back to Lichport, the crumbling seaside town where he was born, and Silas seizes the opportunity to investigate his fathers disappearance. When his search leads him to his fathers old office, he comes across a powerful artifact: the Death Watch, a tool that allows the owner to see the dead. Death Watch in hand, Silas begins to unearth Lichports secret historyand discovers that he has taken on his fathers mantle as Lichports Undertaker. Now, Silas must embark on a dangerous path into the Shadowlands to embrace his destiny and discover the truth about his fathereven if it kills him. Critically acclaimed folklorist Ari Berk explores the worlds of the living and the dead, and the relationships between parents and children in an novel steeped in lore, mystery, and magic.

Silas visits the ancestral home of the Umber family to learn ancient family secrets in this dark and gothic (School Library Journal) contemporary ghost story, the second book in the Undertaken trilogy.Silas Umber has finally come into his own as the Undertaker of Lichport when an invitation arrives: a mysterious word carved into the door of his house. Intrigued, Silas ventures beyond the marshes to visit Arvale Manor, the ancestral estate of the Umber family.There, he discovers that the extended Umber family may be dead, but they are not gone: Indeed, many of them still dwell in Arvale, waiting for an Undertaker to return and preside over the Door Doom, an archaic rite that grants a terrible power to summon and bind the dead in judgment, forcibly sending them to their eternal rest.As Silas reluctantly assumes the mantle of Janus, the Watcher at the Threshold, he begins to learn more about his strange and ancient family. And deep below the earth, in the catacombs and sunken towers, grim spirits grow restless at his arrivalhungry for freedom and eager for vengeance. As the only living Undertaker at Arvale Manor, Silas must put an ancient wrong to right, as he discovers that even a house of ghosts can be haunted by its pastfor in matters of family, we are who we were.

BRIAN FROUD; ARI BERKGoblins, a subspecies of faerie, are those creatures that cause all the trouble in the human world. Froud and Berk have investigated goblins and, unfortunately, infected their book with them. Anyone who brings this book home will be in big trouble.