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RING SHOUT

P. Djèlí Clark

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror

IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS.

In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.

Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan's demons straight to Hell. But something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.

Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?

P. Djèlí Clark is the author of the novellas The Black God's Drums, winner of a 2019 Alex Award from the American Library Association; The Haunting of Tram Car 015; and A Dead Djinn in Cairo. His short stories have twice made the Locus Recommended Reading List and have appeared in online venues such as Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, and in print anthologies including Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is loosely associated with the quarterly FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.

RING SHOUT
Deutsch von Bernd Sambale
[HC Festa 04/2022]
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Published 2020-10-01 by Tor

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“This is a story of Black female power, drawn from both the old and new worlds, a tale that honors the Black American experience in all its complexity, and yet also delivers in its Lovecraftian delight.” (starred review)

“Readers will be both captivated and entertained by this fast-paced alternate history, which doubles as a meditation on the all-consuming power of hate and violence.” (starred review)

"A fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination. ... Clark's combination of historical and political reimagining is cathartic, exhilarating and fresh, casting a narrative spell as enchanting as HBO's adaptation of “Watchmen.” It is the kind of reimagining of history that puts the act of storytelling, and the art of the horror genre, at the forefront of literary and political life." Read more...

“Clark's latest is set in a visceral world, steeped in historical detail and full of engaging characters, that asks the question, 'Who is to blame for the hate that hate made?'.” (starred review)

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Winner of the Nebula Award 2020 for Best Novella Read more...

“Feverishly inventive period adventure . At once rousing, boisterous, and clever.” (starred review)

“P. Djèlí Clark couldn't write a bad book if he tried. Ring Shout is fantastically fun even as its core is as serious as can be.” ?Victor LaValle “Ring Shout is a wild ride into America's nightmarish history, a fantastical cross between Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” ?Annalee Newitz “Slyly told and laced with dark humor, this haunting tale pulled me into a richly realized world I didn't want to leave.” ?Rivers Solomon “Ring Shout is a fearless punch to the heart and head!” ?Jonathan Maberry “A sublime work of revolutionary body horror.” ?Sarah Gailey “Brutal and hopeful, farcical and factual, Ring Shout is a book that speaks to the ridiculous and beastly nature of racism in a story that is difficult to put down.” ?Justina Ireland “From the start, Ring Shout explodes into vivid color with a voice that's at once joyous and harrowing.” ?Bethany C. Morrow “A thrilling and provocative inferno of a story. One of the most powerful and propulsive pieces of speculative fiction I've read in years.” ?Tochi Onyebuchi