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
So Nandor reverses his vampirism by staking Derek, who Laszlo pays the local necromancer to revive as a zombie.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2023
The fantasy game gives players five character classes - barbarian, rogue, sorcerer, necromancer, and druid - each with different abilities.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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
But Wolf and the executive-level necromancers at NBC may be correct in wagering that people will want to witness the copaganda flagship's resurrection.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2022
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
This he knew was a road which the great Roman necromancers had wrought, and he thought he had missed his way, for there was no other path.
From King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert
