Trick or Read: The Monsters Are Real
In P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout, demons wear white hoods and Maryse Boudreaux is coming for them. With blade, bullet, and bomb, Maryse and her fellow resistance fighters take on a 1915 America where The Birth of a Nation has swollen the Klan’s ranks and spread fear across the country. A fierce, foulmouthed, brilliantly imagined Halloween read about fighting back when the monsters are real.
Jim Crow, Dark Magic, and a Very Bad Road Trip
In Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country, Atticus Turner hits the road through 1954 America to find his missing father and runs headlong into Jim Crow, dark magic, and a secret order with plans of its own. Alongside his uncle George and childhood friend Letitia, he faces both the everyday terrors of white supremacy and spirits summoned from older nightmares. A thrilling, genre-bending Halloween read about family, freedom, and the histories that refuse to stay buried.