I COULDN’T HAVE CREATED THIS BOOK WITHOUT the help of my assistant extraordinaire, Kayla Canfield, who read and reread and re-reread the series in order to help me find the juiciest tidbits to include. When she confided in me that the characters had begun to feel like people she knew in real life, I knew she had crossed over into the Revenant Zone and was therefore worthy of working with our favorite undead superheroes.
Much gratitude to my editors Tara Weikum and Chris Hernandez for green-lighting the idea for a Die for Me compendium. Chris provided much-needed guidance as we assembled such a huge and varied assortment of information, and was his usual amazing self as he edited my ideas and words!
Merci to my long-suffering copyeditors Valerie Shea and Alexandra Alexo, who caught all sorts of embarrassing snafus before you could see them, and remembered details from the books that had completely slipped my mind. I’m glad someone out there can read a calendar correctly.
Mags Harnett created the beautiful calligraphy quote from Papy’s bestiary, and Brennon Leman whipped out the cute illustrations on very short notice. Thank you both for your artistic contributions! Suzanne Satow, Lisa Steiner, and Mina Witteman jumped in to help me with some last-minute location photos. Ellen Lindén-Urnes and I sat on her couch in St. Tropez for two hours as she listened to me read out the trivia questions and helped me sort them from easy to hard. Big kudos for that! She and Emma Axen then beta-read the character profiles and trivia questions and gave me valuable feedback. Much thanks to these two amazing teen readers!
My gratitude to Amanda Bøch and Léatitia Brière for taking the final quiz questions on a test drive and sharing their thoughts.
And finally, and as always most importantly, thank you to my readers, who voted on what they wanted to be included in the book: the quotes, the outtakes, the food, and all the rest. As usual, your enthusiasm and undying support is what ferried this book from idea to page. I am so grateful.