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The Dead Don’t Leave
Savannah author Chris Allen releases The Mortician’s Friends — a quietly devastating supernatural novel about grief, guilt, and the companions who arrive when there is no one left to lose.
Savannah, GA — August 10, 2026 — Author Chris Allen has released The Mortician’s Friends, a supernatural novel that trades jump-scares for something slower and more intimate: a grieving man, an aging funeral home, and the dead who quietly begin to keep him company. The book is available now on Amazon.
Haunting, intimate, and quietly devastating, it is a ghost story less concerned with fear than with everything fear leaves behind — grief, guilt, mortality, and the small acts of kindness that remain when nothing can be repaired.
Buy on AmazonDaniel Foster has spent more than thirty years caring for the dead. He knows how to close their eyes, hide the evidence of suffering, and return them to their families looking peaceful. The dead are patient. They make no demands. Daniel has always found them easier than the living.
Since losing his wife and young daughter, he has withdrawn into the aging funeral home beneath his apartment, his days measured by humming refrigeration units, leaking pipes, and the quiet work of preparing strangers for their final goodbyes. Then an elderly woman appears beside his table. Her body is still lying beneath his hands.
The dead are patient. They make no demands. Daniel has always found them easier than the living. — from The Mortician’s Friends
Soon, others begin to stay. A frightened young man waits on the stairs. An angry father carries the weight of everything he left unresolved. A woman tries endlessly to wash guilt from her hands. They never speak, yet each brings fragments of fear, tenderness, shame, and regret. For the first time in years, Daniel is no longer alone.
But as headaches, missing time, and strange changes in his perception worsen, he is forced to question what he sees. Have the dead truly chosen him as their companion — or is his failing mind creating friends where none exist? The novel holds that question open to the last page, letting readers sit with the same uncertainty that unravels its narrator.
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About the Author
Chris Allen is a Savannah-based author and longtime paranormal investigator whose work moves through horror, thriller, and the supernatural — and wherever the next story leads. The Mortician’s Friends is his latest release.
Chris Allen · chris@destinationghost.com · clallen.com
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