The Devil in Silver

Blue skies, rolling plains -and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret.Best Book of the Year: Esquire, Washington Post, Vulture'Deftly weaves history, horror, suspense, and the perspectives of those rarely recorded in the West.' The New York TimesA woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere.Montana, 1915. When the US government offers Americans free land to those who can tame it, Adelaide Henry leaps at the chance. She's fleeing from California and the family home that was left behind in flames. With no choice but to run, Adelaide becomes a 'lone woman', a female homesteader staking her claim on the unforgiving Montana soil.Yet, no matter how far she goes, Adelaide's past is not so easily left behind. With her is an enormous steamer trunk that must stay closed at all times, and a secret inside that destroyed her family.But secrets cannot be stay locked up forever, and it isn't long before her fellow homesteaders notice what Adelaide has desperately tried to hide - wherever she and her deadly cargo go, tragedy and terror follow.The American West is lonely and brutal, and that which Adelaide has tried so hard to escape may be the only thing that will help her survive.FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD***Readers love Lone Women***'This moody and masterful western fires on all cylinders.' Publishers Weekly'His best novel yet.' Gabino Iglesias, author of House of Bone and Rain'A haunting historical horror novel about isolation, survival, and monstrous secrets in the American West. Dark, powerful, and deeply unsettling.' FIVE STARS'This was an excellent experience and I really love LaValle's storytelling.' FIVE STARS'I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful mix of historical fiction, western folklore, and... horror.' FIVE STARS'Amazing!!! Emotional, moving, unexpected, sometimes brutal.' FIVE STARS

The Ballad of Black Tom is an atmospheric historical horror novella which reimagines and reclaims the Lovecraftian Mythos, for fans of Sinners and Lovecraft Country.'This ingenious recasting of an H.P. Lovecraft classic is as creepy as it is thought-provoking.' PeopleThe Sleeping King rests at the bottom of the ocean.The Sleeping King slumbers on the other side of the door.The Sleeping King is dead but dreaming. In New York City, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Charles Thomas Tester is a hustler, trading in occult items.He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the glamour written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops.But what Tom doesn't know is that there is something ancient and hungry that sleeps just on the other side of reality. The more magic he touches, the closer he gets to waking it up.A tempest that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn, and Black Tom is trapped in the eye of the storm. Will he live to see it break?'Stands on its own as a compelling weird tale of Jazz-age New York City, but its penetrating examination of Lovecraft's creations and how they reflect racism's profound influence on our cultural imagination is where it really shines.' Slate'LaValle's novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do.' Laird Barron🥇 WINNER of Shirley Jackson Award 2016 for Best Novella 🥇 WINNER of British Fantasy Award 2017 for Best Novella 🥇 WINNER of This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year 2016 🥈 FINALIST of Hugo Award 2017 for Best Novella🥈 FINALIST of Locus Award 2017 for Best Novella🥈 FINALIST of Bram Stoker Award 2016🥉 NOMINEE of Nebula Award 2016 for Best Novella🥉 NOMINEE of World Fantasy Award 2017

Gewinner des Shirley Jackson Award, des This is Horror Award und des British Fantasy Award Eines der bester Bücher von NPR im Jahr 2016 Die Menschen ziehen nach New York auf der Suche nach Magie, und nichts kann sie davon überzeugen, dass es die nicht gibt. Charles Thomas Tester muss um das Essen auf dem Tisch kämpfen und hält sich mit Aufträgen von Harlem bis Red Hook über Wasser. Er weiß, welche Wirkung ein Anzug haben kann, dass ein Gitarrenkoffer unsichtbar macht und welcher Fluch auf seiner Haut geschrieben steht - ein Fluch, der die Aufmerksamkeit reicher Weißer und ihrer Polizisten auf sich zieht.Als er einer alten Zauberin im Herzen von Queens ein okkultes Buch liefert, stößt Tom die Tür zu einer unergründlichen Dimension der Magie auf und erregt die Aufmerksamkeit uralter Wesen, die man besser hätte ruhen lassen.Ein Sturm, der die ganze Welt verschlingen könnte, braut sich über Brooklyn zusammen. Kann Black Tom lange genug überleben, um zu sehen, wie er losbricht?People Magazine:  'Geniale Neuinterpretation eines H. P. Lovecraft-Klassikers.'