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* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[The People of the Black Circle]]", the king is murdered by necromancy.
** In "[[The Devil in Iron]]", Khosatral Khel revives his city with it,
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* In [[Amanda Downum]]'s ''[[The Drowning City]]'' and ''[[The Bone Palace]]'', the protagonist, Isyllt Iskaldur, is a necromancer. She is not portrayed as evil, although she is sometimes treated as such by others. Her abilities do not appear to include summoning zombie armies, but do include dealing with ghosts, whether communicating, capturing or banishing, as well as raising the dead temporarily, experiencing the final memories of the dead, aging and corroding non-living things rapidly, invoking cold, and related things.
* Necromancy is an aspect of [[Black Magic]] in ''[[Mithgar]]'', and mostly follows the more traditional sort, as a necromancer's primary abilities are used in summoning and compelling dead spirits, usually to force information out of them. One necromancer, Baron Stoke (also one of the series' [[Complete Monster|viler villains]]), ''did'' learn to create a zombie army, but died before he could use it or pass the knowledge on.
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