Item from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
A small black stone that can summon shades of the dead — the second Deathly Hallow — set into Marvolo Gaunt's ring and also serving as one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
The Resurrection Stone is the cruelest of the Hallows because it gives you almost what you want. The dead it summons are not truly returned — they are shades, present but separated by a veil, belonging to the world of the dead and sad to be called back. The second Peverell brother used it to recall the woman he loved and was driven to suicide by her pale, cold, not-quite-there presence. Voldemort set the stone in his grandfather's ring without recognizing it as a Hallow, turning it into a Horcrux instead — the irony of the man who feared death above all things unknowingly possessing the one artifact that could have shown him death was not the end. Dumbledore recognized it, put on the ring in a moment of desperate hope to see his dead sister Ariana, and triggered the curse that would kill him within the year. Harry used it in the Forbidden Forest to summon his parents, Sirius, and Lupin before walking to his own death. He dropped it in the forest, and it was never found again.
A small, unremarkable black stone with a crack running through it from when Dumbledore destroyed the Horcrux. The Deathly Hallows symbol — a triangle, circle, and line — is etched into its surface, though most people would mistake it for a crude scratched mark. When turned three times in the hand, the air grows cold and the shades of the dead appear — not ghosts, not fully alive, but something in between.
Also known as: the Resurrection Stone, Resurrection Stone, the Stone