Bauchelain and Korbal Broach is a series of novels by Steven Erikson the Canadian novelist anthropologist and archaeologist whose real name is Steve Rune Lundin. Erikson is best known for creation of the Malazan universe series of novels in which his Malazan Book of the Fallen and Bauchelain and Korbal Broach series of novellas are set. His work in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series has been called one of the most prominent works in epic fantasy in recent times. Steven Erikson was born in Ontario but spent most of his childhood in Winnipeg before he moves to the UK with his family and finally resettled back in Winnipeg. He studies archaeology and anthropology in college and graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His very first work in the workshop was A Ruin of Feathers that were short stories about a Central American archaeologist. The short stories were published by a small publishing house in Canada known as TSAR. His other major work was a series of short stories and a novella…show more content… Emancipor Reese is a man who has had some of the worst luck in his life and now has to contend with being out of work as his employer became the victim of the vicious killer. His wife is of no help as she has become comfortable with a life of hardship that she no longer cares for the terrors of the city that keep Emancipor awake at night. But Emancipor's life changes with the arrival of two necromancers to Lamentable Moll. The two have been spreading the word that they are in need of a manservant and Reese believes that he could be the perfect fit for the two men. Even though the note seems to have words full of deathly magic, no ghostly howling or terror in the night is going to stop Emancipator even as the city prepares itself for a time full of terror inspired