That led me to look into the naming of bells. Around the same time, from reading Dorothy Sayer’s murder mystery The Nine Tailors, I became aware that church bells often had names. Candles were out because they would not be very dramatic and also highly impractical (at least so I thought back then, I have since considered ways they could work). Books were out, because I wanted something different from books of spells. Possibly the most famous form of exorcism is ‘by bell, book and candle’. The first was that I was trying to think up a kind of magic that was a bit different to that normally encountered in fantasy fiction, and as it was to be used by the Abhorsens I was looking into folklore about exorcising evil spirits and so on. However, in the case of the bells that necromancers and the Abhorsens use, I think there were two points of inspiration. It’s always difficult to work out where particular ideas come from. Why did you choose bells as the tools of necromantic magic?
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