The Ungrateful Dead is a short story first published in the Blood Lite anthology, and republished in Otherworld Secrets. It is narrated by Jaime Vegas.
Plot[]
A ghost is particularly aggressive in harassing Jaime at one of her shows. After temporary banishing doesn't deal with him, she calls Paige for proper banishing materials. Savannah answers and drives up to Seattle to deliver the materials herself. She convinces Jaime to follow the ghosts orders to the mausoleum where he and his cousin are buried. They open the cousin's coffin and find he has been reanimated into a zombie, probably from pissing another necromancer off.
After a minor scuffle, Savannah suggests offloading the zombie to her dark witch contact Molly Crane. They reanimate the original ghost as well so that both can suffer under Molly's care.
Characters[]
- Jaime Vegas - now forty-six
- Savannah Levine - nineteen years old. Eve's daughter, Paige's ward
- Jeremy Danvers - Jaime's boyfriend
- Eve Levine (mentioned) - Jaime's angelic bodyguard, currently out of contact
- Paige Winterbourne - witch. Supplies Jaime with herbs and such. In San Francisco on a mission
- Lucas Cortez (mentioned) - Paige's husband and business partner. In Chicago on a case.
- Adam Vasic - in San Francisco on a mission
- Cassandra DuCharme - in San Francisco on a mission
- Brett - Jaime's stylist
- Patty - an audience member
- Uncle Mortimer - a ghost
- Tara - Jaime's assistant
- Chuck/Byron Carruthers - a ghost harassing Jaime
- Chuck/Byron's cousin - made into a zombie by an annoyed necromancer
- Molly Crane (mentioned) - a dark witch
Continuity[]
- A few years ago Jaime encountered a ghost whose death-body was almost cut in half. Eve got rid of the spook in Haunted
- Savannah asked if Jaime has been kidnapped again....it's happened several times.
References[]
- ↑ Jaime is 46 years old