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Billy's Zombie

Graham Downs

Publisher: Graham Downs

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Summary

Young Billy MacIntyre has always been a weird kid, always taking every little slight to heart. 
One day, he decides that he's had enough of the relentless mocking and bullying at school and around town. 
He decides to exact his revenge on all those simpletons who have done him wrong. And he does it by taking a book of Necromancy out of the library, and raising a zombie from the dead!
Available since: 10/30/2014.

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