The Dead Gentleman

The dead are up and walking, and the Gentleman is at the door... Featuring a kid hero, time travel, and otherworld portals in unexpected places (maybe there are monsters under your bed), The Dead Gentleman is a wild ride between parallel New York City timestreams-1901 and today. Eleven-year-old Tommy Learner is a street orphan and an unlikely protege to the Explorers, a secret group dedicated to exploring portals-the hidden doorways to other worlds. But while investigating an attercop (man-eating spider) in the basement of an old hotel, Tommy is betrayed-and trapped. And it's then that his world collides with that of modern-day Jezebel Lemon, who-until the day she decides to explore her building's basement-had no bigger worries than homework and boys. Now, Jezebel and Tommy must thwart the Dead Gentleman-a legendary villain whose last unconquered world is our own planet Earth, a realm where the dead stay dead. Until now. Can two kids put an end to this ancient evil and his legions of Gravewalkers? From the Hardcover edition.

MATTHEW CODY is the author of Will in Scarlet, Powerless, Super, and the upcoming Villainous. Originally from the midwest, he now lives in New York City with his wife and young son. Besides novels, Matt has written for both DC Comics and Marvel, and is a regular moderator at the Thalia Book Club camp at Symphony Space.