The end is nigh! Behind the truth of Sachiko's death lies a cruel and tragic past...The students of Class 2-9 struggle to hold on to their sanity as they fight both the ghosts of the school and the ever-encroaching Darkness that seeks to turn them against their friends. If they can't solve this mystery soon, it'll be too late! When living is this hellish, is death the only way out...?

Kishinuma and Shinozaki may have escaped the cursed Tenjin Elementary School, but the rest of their surviving classmates are still trapped. Will they trade their safety for the lives of their friends? Meanwhile, Morishige's corpse obsession reaches a point past all return and Kizami shows his true colors to Yuka--will her big brother come to save her before it's too late?

A stormy night. A harmless ghost story. A silly pact intended to symbolize their friendship. But before the students of class 2-9 at Kisaragi Academy even know what's happening, they've been swept up in a living nightmare that threatens to consume them all. When the spirits emerge, will even their friends be left to hear them scream...?

The curse consumes all... With every new encounter, the darkness of Tenjin Elementary slowly comes to light. But what awaits is the sad fate of a friend... The terror accelerates in Volume 2 of Corpse Party: Blood Covered!

The past comes calling... Return once more to the haunted halls of Tenjin Elementary School to explore the what-ifs, should-haves, and could-have-beens of Corpse Party: Blood Covered. After all, didn't everything wrap up just a little too nicely the first time around...?

What if someone said the incantation wrong? What if that's why they all wandered into Tenjin Elementary School!? When your faith is shaken, doubt paints your heart black.

For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Laurell K. Hamilton. When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake is an expert in the kinds of preternatural goings-on that have everyone spooked. And she's got an 'in' with the creature that can make sense of the slayings-the sexy master vampire known as Jean-Claude.