Ring Shout
“Cathartic, exhilarating and fresh.”
New York Times
An October 2020 LibraryReads Pick
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick of the Year
Finalist for the 2020 SIBA Award
A Booklist Editors' Choice
NPR Best Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Book of 2020
A Washington Post Best Book of 2020
A BookRiot Pick of the Year's Best Books
Finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella
Finalist for the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella
Finalist for the This Is Horror Award for Best Novella of 2020
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 is brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.
Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?
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