“With this new novel, Khaw and Kadrey begin a duology with a hard-hitting, low-down and dirty urban fantasy that cranks the horror all the way up.”
Burnt-out and coked-up, 30 year old Julie’s only retirement plan is dying early. After trying to set herself up in the NYC magic scene, she’s determined to make it, working the most gruesome gigs, exorcising nasty demons, and making deals with the cruellest gods, just to claw her way to the top.
Desperate to break the dead-end grind, Julie summons a guardian angel, hoping for a career boost. But magic doesn’t always work as intended, and her power grab accidentally releases an elder god hell-bent on destruction. As the body count rises, Julie has to figure out a way to end the madness before the entire world is annihilated.
Why we’re excited about this book:
Both Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey consistently deliver the goods writing alone. Together they’re unstoppable. Khaw is the author of The All-Consuming World, the Persons Non Grata series, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, The Salt Grows Heavy, and Breakable Things, with short fiction in numerous publications. Richard Kadrey is the author of the Sandman Slim series, Dead Set, The Grand Dark, The Wrong Dead Guy, The Everything Box, and The Secrets of Insects, among others. With this new novel, Khaw and Kadrey begin a duology with a hard-hitting, low-down and dirty urban fantasy that cranks the horror all the way up. Hailey Piper (Queen of Teeth, The Worm and His Kings) calls The Dead Take the A Train “An addictive, sprawling yarn. This city brims with underhanded dealings and odd magic, and every corner writhes with fresh horrors and delights.”, and John Langan (The Fisherman) says: “The Dead Take the A Train incorporates everything that’s best about both authors into a seamless whole and adds a touch of something uniquely weird and wonderful. The result is fun, thrilling, and compulsively readable.”
Forthcoming from Tor Nightfire 3 October 2023, The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA
