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One of NPR's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break? "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, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All "[LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from popular fiction."-- Praise for The Devil in Silver from Elizabeth Hand, author of Radiant Days "LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft's Dagon... [The Ballad of Black Tom] has a satisfying slingshot ending." - Elizabeth Hand for Fantasy & ScienceFiction

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The Unfortunate Events author on getting nightmares from Dr Seuss, Raymond Chandler’s brawny wit and the ghost story he read to tatters

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In seeking to understand his parents and his life, Flanagan merges memory and fiction to ponder the random nature of existence, resulting in a masterpiece of subtlety and depth

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A web of entangled memories.

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Bloody murder spoils folks’ fun while megafauna return from extinction.

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In the near future, two lawyers battle over a company’s rights to own memories in Shulman’s speculative novel.

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Busch’s SF thriller spans 70-plus years, from World War II into the new millennium.

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Logan’s debut novel—the first installment in his Last Legacy saga—is an adventure fantasy that revolves around a young man’s search for answers to mysteries regarding his father’s death.

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The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton; Moral Injuries by Christie Watson; The Hunter by Tana French; How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin; Every Move You Make by CL Taylor

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Recall the magic of 1001 Nights, the horror of A Clockwork Orange, the exotic puzzle of The Savage Detectives--and prepare to meet the future.

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Withnail and I meets James Bond as two druggy neighbours and a celebrity crime novelist join forces to investigate a murder

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Goodreads Choice Awards best SF books 2023 longlist Out now in the US and Canada. Order here Cover art by sparth Most-anticipated SFF of/2nd-half-of/best-of 2023 lists: Tor.com, LitHub, Book Riot, Library Journal, Goodreads, Book Riot, Bookbub, Netgalley's We are Bookish, Coode Street Podcast, The Fantasy Review, The Portalist, Publisher's Lunch, Transfer Orbit, The Mary Sue…

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