King of the Dead: Ravenloft #13

by Gene DeWeese

Once a powerful human wizard, Firan Zal'honan is transformed into Azalin, the King of the Dead, an anguished undead ruler with limitless dark powers, who can neither gain his own freedom nor bring... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786904836
• ISBN13: 9780786904839
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: TSR
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Best Book Ever Written!

Throw out "A catcher in the rye","To Kill a Mocking bird",and Their eyes were watching God".This book is a good read.Azalin is a charecter to end all charecters!

Creates a person out of an evil lord

A book like this, should never be passed up on. It tells the beginning of the only darklord to ever escape Ravenloft. With only the I Strahd, War against Azalin farce about Strahd out-thinking Azalin, all Ravenloft books, depict a close similarity to the game setting, while making the world come alive in ways only the best DM's could.

I never can put it down. A must for any Ravenloft Enthusiust

This book is the best version yet of how a dark lord came to Ravenloft. A must for a D & D reader or just for fun.

One of the best books describing the Lord of Ravenloft

This is a great book describing the lord of Ravenloft. It gives details of his life and death, or undeath, that makes it seem highly believable. Any that have read books mentioning or concerning Strahd will find that this books gives enlightenment to his inner self. A very well writen book and I recommend it to anyone.

A great novel! One of the best of the series!

Every so often, TSR publishes a novel that is above and beyond all the others written so far. KotD, by Gene DeWeese- whose only other work in RL was the enjoyable short story "Von Kahrkov" in the Tales of Ravenloft anthology -is one of these books.It joins previous greats Heart of Midnight, I, Strahd: the Memoirs of a Vampire, Mordenheim, and Scholar of Decay on the "what's what" list of RL novels (from what I've read, only the new I, Strahd: the War Against Azalin is the only other worthy addition published after KotD, though I have yet to read Lord of the Necropolis, by the same author, and Shadowborn).The book is an example of a retelling of past history as part of the current storyline (a literary idea so well-done in Mordenheim), allowing for the entire book to take place in the space of about two to three days. The end result is to die for, and Azalin establishes himself as one of Ravenloft's greatest terrors. The best part, though, is that Azalin hails from the (until now) discontinued world of Greyhawk, and much of his history takes place there, giving novice readers and players (like myself, to a point) a glimpse into one of the most-popular worlds ever made. In all, KotD is an excellent tale and well-recommended.