necromancer
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But it was the ongoing appearances of Haley Joel Osment as Topher and Benedict Wong as Wallace the necromancer that were among my favorites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
In letters written to Mr Brookes, Christopher accuses him of being a "detrimental necromancer" and says the coronial process is illegal as "you can't be dead on paper".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
So Nandor reverses his vampirism by staking Derek, who Laszlo pays the local necromancer to revive as a zombie.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2023
Now D&D appears to have been resurrected as if by a 17th-level necromancer.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
“Music!” concluded the necromancer in ecstasy, unable to make the smallest beginnings of an imitation “Hallo,” said Kay, opening the door of the afternoon school room.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
We might have forgotten all about the “Top Model” house of horrors if not for the twin necromancers of streaming and social media.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
Wearing sweatshirts and mom jeans, they look more like a focus group on suburban Costco shoppers than a circle of aspiring necromancers.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018
If Ben Mezrich’s “Woolly” is to be believed, mammoths may be returning someday soon to a tundra near you, resurrected by the necromancers of synthetic biology.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
Early records of Haitian zombies described them as pliant laborers, summoned from their graves by greedy necromancers to work in sugar-cane fields at night.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
"I know why necromancers do not frighten you; you cast spells yourself."
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
