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The subject of this article is non-canonical.
While created as part of licensed material, it has not been confirmed as part of the "real" Buffyverse continuity.

Night of the Living Rerun was a novel written by Arthur Byron Cover based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Synopsis

In 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, the Despised One was raised from the Otherworld and Samantha Kane, that generation's Slayer, died while defeating it. Now in 1997, the Master is trying to have history repeat itself but this time with a different ending. The spirits of the people responsible for the rise of the Despised One in 1692 are now inhabiting the bodies of Buffy and her friends. Buffy must stop the ritual from happening or the Master will rise from his prison below Sunnydale.

Appearances

Buffy Summers
Joyce Summers
Rupert Giles
Xander Harris
Willow Rosenberg
Cotton Mather
Samantha Kane (Puritan-era Slayer)
Judge Danforth
Heather Putnam
Sheriff Corwin
The Despised One (demon)
Sarah Dinsdale (witch)
Reverend John Goodman
Daryl MacGovern
Eric Frank (reporters)
Rick and Lora Church (occult investigators)

Behind the Scenes

The Master holds responsibility for the Salem Witch Trials

The Lovecraftian tome The Book of Eibon appears in Giles' library.

Setting: Season 2

The book was written during season 1 and the official summary references the Master being trapped in the church but edits were made before its publication to make it compliant with canon established by "Prophecy Girl" by making the Master plot from Hell and seek his return to Sunnydale through the Hellmouth instead of merely seeking to leave the church.

The book is the third entry in a trilogy of standalone books connected by the theme of "Cowboys and Indians", along with Halloween Rain and Coyote Moon. The cowboy theme is represented by the climactic battle humorously taking place in a western-themed restaurant and the Indian theme is represented by both the historical conflict between Salem and the Wabanaki Confederacy in the flashback setting and as Native American bodies in the Sunnydale area being among the various zombies to animate in the modern setting.
The book is the first Buffy tie-in novel whose plot is not envisioned as a one-shot monster-of-the-week adventure but as a full season arc--in this case, for a speculative season two--with scattered references to the monster-of-the-week adventures the Scoobies face in-between events that progress the main plot.

International Titles

Dutch: "Herhaling van het Verleden" (Recurrence of the Past)
German: "Die Nacht der Wiederkehr" (The Night of Returns)
French: "Répétition Mortelle" (Deadly Repetition)
Portuguese: "A Noite da Reencarnação Final" (Final Night of Reincarnation)
Indonesian: "Malam Pengulangan" (Night Repetition)

Collections

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Volume 1"

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 '''''Night of the Living Rerun''''' was a novel written by [[Arthur Byron Cover]] based on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
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 *[[Willow Rosenberg]]
 *[[Cotton Mather]]
+*Samantha Kane (Puritan-era Slayer)
+*Judge Danforth
+*Heather Putnam
+*Sheriff Corwin
+*The Despised One (demon)
+*Sarah Dinsdale (witch)
+*Reverend John Goodman
+*Daryl MacGovern
+*Eric Frank (reporters)
+*Rick and Lora Church (occult investigators)
 == Behind the Scenes ==
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 *The [[Wikipedia:Cthulhu Mythos|Lovecraftian]] tome ''[[Wikipedia:Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature#Book of Eibon|The Book of Eibon]]'' appears in Giles' library.
+*Setting: Season 2
+*The book was written during season 1 and the official summary references the Master being trapped in the church but edits were made before its publication to make it compliant with canon established by "[[Prophecy Girl]]" by making the Master plot from Hell and seek his return to Sunnydale through the [[Hellmouth]] instead of merely seeking to leave the church.
+*The book is the third entry in a trilogy of standalone books connected by the theme of "Cowboys and Indians", along with ''[[Halloween Rain]]'' and ''[[Coyote Moon]]''. The cowboy theme is represented by the climactic battle humorously taking place in a western-themed restaurant and the Indian theme is represented by both the historical conflict between Salem and the Wabanaki Confederacy in the flashback setting and as Native American bodies in the Sunnydale area being among the various zombies to animate in the modern setting.
+*The book is the first ''Buffy'' tie-in novel whose plot is not envisioned as a one-shot monster-of-the-week adventure but as a full season arc--in this case, for a speculative season two--with scattered references to the monster-of-the-week adventures the Scoobies face in-between events that progress the main plot.
+===International Titles===
+*'''Dutch:''' "Herhaling van het Verleden" (Recurrence of the Past)
+*'''German:''' "Die Nacht der Wiederkehr" (The Night of Returns)
+*'''French:''' "Répétition Mortelle" (Deadly Repetition)
+*'''Portuguese:''' "A Noite da Reencarnação Final" (Final Night of Reincarnation)
+*'''Indonesian:''' "Malam Pengulangan" (Night Repetition)
+=== Collections ===
+* "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Volume 1]]"
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery captionalign="center">
+BVS-Night of Living Rerun NL.jpg|Cover in the Netherlands
+</gallery>
+[[fr:Répétition mortelle]]
 [[Category:Buffy novels]]