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Book #3 in ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)|The Dresden Files]]''.
 
In all his years of supernatural sleuthing, Harry Dresden has never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone postal. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someone-or something-is purposely stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? If Harry doesn't figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.
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=== Tropes associated with ''Grave Peril'': ===
* [[Battle in Thethe Center of Thethe Mind]]: Harry versus {{spoiler|The Nightmare/Leonid Kravos}}. Unusual in that the hero gets his butt kicked the first time seeing as he was {{spoiler|in a drug-induced coma due to vampire spit}}. In the rematch, however, Harry turns into a [[Body Horror|fanged and clawed monster]] and {{spoiler|Eats Kravos alive...er...undead. [[Thanatos Gambit|After letting it kill him for a moment]] [[Crazy Awesome|so that he can get backup from his own ghost]]}}
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Pretty much ''everyone'' at Bianca's party. Particularly the pair of [[Black Cloak|Black Cloaks]] with the athame, who later reappear in ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)/Dead Beat|Dead Beat]]'' as {{spoiler|Cowl and Kumori}}.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: A superpower for the Knights of the Cross. In this book, for instance, Harry and Michael need to go rescue Charity, but Harry does not want to leave Michael's kids alone. Michael simply opens the front door to show [[Good Shepherd|Father Forthill]], just about to knock, standing on the steps because his car just ''happened'' to break down. He looks between them and says, [[Genre Savvy|"You need a babysitter again]], [[Seen It All|don't you?"]]
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Susan {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit|brings Harry back to life after a brief death in order to allow himself and his ghost to both team up on Kravid]]}}.
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* [[Non-Human Undead]]: Harry encounters an extremely strong ghost he calls the Nightmare, and suspects it's one of these. {{spoiler|Specifically, the ghost of the demon serving the sorcerer Kravos. He later learns that the ghost is Kravos himself, whose death had been concealed from him.}}
* [[Poison and Cure Gambit]]: Harry manages to play with this by {{spoiler|poisoning ''himself'' in order to get Lea to cooperate.}}
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]: It is ''deeply implied'' that {{spoiler|Harry (and likely Justine) was gangraped by Bianca's Red Court. Harry being, well, Harry, he never speaks about what happened to him explicitly, but several books later still mentions having nightmares about it.}}
* [[Revenge Byby Proxy]]
* [[Story Arc]]: This book kicked off {{spoiler|the war between the White Council and the Red Court}} that would blaze along merrily in the background for quite some time and set in motion most of the plots of the following books.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: when {{spoiler|confronted by a horde of vampires, Harry unleashes ''Pyrofuego'', to their ''thorough'' dismay.}}
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