Shadow meets with the proprietors of Ibis and Jacquel Funeral Parlor. Mr. Ibis offers Shadow work--as long as he is not squeamish. Shadow reluctantly agrees, and Mr. Jacquel assures him that in their line of work, the dead stay dead . . . but is this morbid guarantee enough to tempt Shadow's guilty conscious over the edge? A Starz TV show!

Shadow makes his way into a seemingly deserted forest where a loudmouthed bird tells him to go to ''Kay-ro'' to meet ''Jackel.'' Unable to make heads or tails of this advice, he sets out on a new leg of his journey, where he is about to meet the strangest gods thus far. . . The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awardwinning novel