![]() ![]() Agent: Michael Curry, Donald Maass Literary. Khaw continues to demonstrate her mastery of seductive short-form horror, juxtaposing the disgusting and relentlessly terrifying with moments of exquisite beauty in ways that make it impossible to look away. Deacon encounters Ana, a young vocalist who shares his affliction, and together they must decide whether John Persons, gumshoe investigator and fighter against the Lovecraftian darkness, is pursuing them as friend or enemy. Indeed, in this moment of love for a specfic novella about queer love with DEVASTATINGLY beautiful prose and feelings, you WANT this book casskhaw has written a thing that sits beautifully next to maxgladstone and tithenai. As Georgia bluesman Deacon James travels alone toward Arkham, Mass., he faces both the dangers of racism and the terror of the song in his head, which he can’t resist playing even when he knows that doing so warps the world and brings forth monstrous horrors. RT DLibris: Seriously, you want this book. ![]() ![]() She blends 1959 cultural cadences with the visceral language of Lovecraftian horror and disturbingly lyrical descriptions of music that won’t let go until it destroys the player. Deacon James is a rambling bluesman straight from Georgia, a black man with troubles that he cant escape, and music that. In the second novella in her Persons Non Grata series (after Hammers on Bone), Khaw introduces a new protagonist but continues the deeply affecting ambiance of a prose symphony. ![]()
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