Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring Shout | 2020 | P. Djeli Clark | Buy |
| 2 | The Dead Cat Tail Assassins | 2024 | P. Djeli Clark | Buy |
P. Djeli Clark’s standalone novels show the range of his fantasy writing. Ring Shout (2020) is a dark fantasy novella set in 1920s Georgia. In Clark’s version of history, D.W. Griffith is a sorcerer and The Birth of a Nation is a spell that transformed the Klan into literal monsters. Maryse Boudreaux carries a magic sword and hunts them. The novella won the Nebula, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards.
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins (2024) introduces the city of Tal Abisi, a place full of gods and hired killers. Eveen the Eviscerator is a member of a guild of necromancer assassins who can’t remember her own past from when she was alive. The book builds a new world entirely separate from Clark’s Cairo stories.