5/29/2023 0 Comments P djeli clark ring shout![]() ![]() How he managed to cram all of this into less than 200 pages is it's own magic trick. Visceral body horror, internalized hate, America's legacy of dehumanization. He makes it personal, he puts it in your face, he doesn't pull any punches. ![]() But it takes someone of Clark's skill to write Ring Shout. In prohibition Georgia, Maryse Boudreaux has a magic sword, a best friend whose a sharpshooter, and enough internal demons to keep anyone up at night.Īnyone can write a novella about a girl who kills monsters with a magical sword. And when monsters rise, so do monster hunters. The hatred they feed on, it turns them into literal monsters. The Ku Klux Klan (and it grosses me out to even type those three words) gain power and have their own plans. Griffith is a sorcerer, whose 1915 film Birth of a Nation cast a spell that forced our darkest thoughts to the surface. In this dark fantasy historical novella, the film maker D.W. Djèlí Clark's novella Ring Shout, available Oct 24th from Tor.com Publishing. I might be describing America right this second, while at the same time describing the America of 1922, of P. Standing tall and doing what you need to do. ![]()
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