After dying in a freak accident, Matt Cahill inexplicably "wakes up"
three months later with the disturbing ability to see things--terrible
things--that others cannot. Drafted as a warrior in the battle between
good and evil, Matt will stop at nothing to destroy the malevolent Mr.
Dark. In The Dead Man Volume 7, a trio of sinister new stories tracks
the reluctant hero on his nightmarish quest.
Matt Cahill is part of a team of smokejumpers who are dropped into the
heart of a raging forest fire that is fueled by a flamethrower-wielding
madman under the sway of Mr. Dark. Almost every living thing in this
hellacious Crucible of Fire, including Matt's fellow firefighters, are
falling prey to Mr. Dark's evil touch and bowing to his furious command:
Kill the Dead Man!
Matt is tracking a blood-sucking, shape-shifting killer through the icy
Cascade Mountains when he encounters a mysterious woman who is on the
same corpse-strewn trail...but who has a terrifying secret of her
own...and an unspeakable lust for The Dark Need.
In the blasted hell of the Arizona desert, Matt hitches a ride with a
young couple who meets a terrible fate that he's powerless to stop. The
bloody encounter leads him to a deadly stranger who may know why Matt
became part of The Rising Dead. But first they must survive in an
unforgiving wasteland to do battle with a gang of heavily-armed
smugglers who trade in human flesh.
