Necromantic

He wields Batman's skull as some kind of necromantic artifact: ❋ Unknown (2009)

An old warlock at the end of his natural life tries one last time to seduce his niece/daughter incest powers much of the magic in this novel, so she can help him rise from the grave to begin a kind of necromantic undeath. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Want I should go dig the guy up and let you do some kind of necromantic thing on him?" ❋ Cook, Glen (1997)

For had I not exercised a kind of necromantic art, and roused without awaking the slumbering dead? ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Haust applied the term "necromantic" to Scandinavian metal in the song Nekromantik Norway. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They were now in sight of the lodge of Iamo, the magician of the undying head -- of that great magician whose life had been the forfeit of the kind of necromantic leprosy caused by the careless steps of the fatal curse of uncleanliness in his sister. ❋ Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1828)

"necromantic" light effects, "preternatural sounds," voluptuous scents, and clockwork machinery had so intoxicated young Beckford that he'd immediately begun writing his famous Oriental romance, ❋ Unknown (2005)

Roscoe, New York, 1851, ch. xiii) Benvenuto Cellini shows how vague the meaning of necromancy had become when he relates that he assisted at "necromantic" evocations in which multitudes of "devils" appeared and answered his questions. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

So a commenter over at the Philippine Genre Stories blog has raised the specter (pun not intended) of a necromantic revival of the Great Book Blockade (credit for that particular metaphor goes to the New Worlds Alliance twitter). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Spineless democrats, no spine for the necromantic arts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thall's necromantic powers were so great that his own death was a manageable condition. ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)

She stood before the sylvari, who was now bathed in a greenish, necromantic glow. ❋ Matt Forbeck (2010)

KC had never robbed the dead, had never thought of the necromantic nature of such a deed. ❋ Richard Doetsch (2010)

There was a love interest even in a necromantic world ... on this page greeting our hero in her dressing gown: ❋ Unknown (2010)