The Devil in Silver
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***With a foil design behind the jacket, and an exclusive foreword by Stephen Graham Jones***
'LaValle's imagination is matched only by his narrative daring.' Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie
'Victor LaValle has been out here changing the horror game on the literary side for a long time.' Tananarive Due, award-winning author of The Reformatory
New Hyde Hospital's psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.
When an altercation with the police leads to Pepper being mistakenly admitted to a mental institution in Queens, NYC, he doesn't expect to stay there long. It will be a matter of days, he believes, until the misunderstanding is ironed out and he is released.
But as those days stretch into weeks, blurring into a cycle of bad food, endless hallways, and an ever-increasing mixture of sedatives, Pepper realises that the system isn't just broken - it's forgotten him. He must fight through the chemical haze to hold on to his sanity, but he has worse problems. There are rumours that a devil stalks the wards after dark - a monstrous figure with the body of an old man and the head of a bison.
As more patients begin vanishing, and the overworked staff cover up their disappearances, Pepper must unite the other inmates and kill the monster that's hunting them.
But what can destroy the devil?
***Readers love The Devil in Silver***
'I was hooked straight away.' FIVE-STARS
'An unsettling and troubling read, but one with tremendous heart and deeply memorable characters.' FIVE-STARS
'I was impressed with the quality of the writing. It's intense, often frightening.' FIVE-STARS
'This was my first Victor LaValle book and it will certainly not be my last.' FIVE-STARS
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I expected this to be something completely different than what it was. And I liked it.The best thing about this book is the mix of eccentric, lovable characters and their interactions with each other. I found myself rooting for them almost instantly and was invested in each of their stories. The second best thing is the exploration of institutionalization and the treatment of mental illness. When LaValle combines the very, very real horror of the institution with his bunch of lovable characters, you can't help but feel for them and with them, and be frightened by the way other people treat them.LaValle's writing is still great in this book, although I did love it more in The Ballad of Black Tom. I enjoyed the sudden shifts in point of view, it gave the whole story a very movie-like feel. What threw me off were the addresses to the reader and the remarks in brackets, I didn't find them particularly clever, they just disturbed my reading flow.I will definitely be reading more stories by Victor LaValle, he's becoming one of my favourite horror authors.
Description
***With a foil design behind the jacket, and an exclusive foreword by Stephen Graham Jones***
'LaValle's imagination is matched only by his narrative daring.' Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie
'Victor LaValle has been out here changing the horror game on the literary side for a long time.' Tananarive Due, award-winning author of The Reformatory
New Hyde Hospital's psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.
When an altercation with the police leads to Pepper being mistakenly admitted to a mental institution in Queens, NYC, he doesn't expect to stay there long. It will be a matter of days, he believes, until the misunderstanding is ironed out and he is released.
But as those days stretch into weeks, blurring into a cycle of bad food, endless hallways, and an ever-increasing mixture of sedatives, Pepper realises that the system isn't just broken - it's forgotten him. He must fight through the chemical haze to hold on to his sanity, but he has worse problems. There are rumours that a devil stalks the wards after dark - a monstrous figure with the body of an old man and the head of a bison.
As more patients begin vanishing, and the overworked staff cover up their disappearances, Pepper must unite the other inmates and kill the monster that's hunting them.
But what can destroy the devil?
***Readers love The Devil in Silver***
'I was hooked straight away.' FIVE-STARS
'An unsettling and troubling read, but one with tremendous heart and deeply memorable characters.' FIVE-STARS
'I was impressed with the quality of the writing. It's intense, often frightening.' FIVE-STARS
'This was my first Victor LaValle book and it will certainly not be my last.' FIVE-STARS
Book Information
Posts
I expected this to be something completely different than what it was. And I liked it.The best thing about this book is the mix of eccentric, lovable characters and their interactions with each other. I found myself rooting for them almost instantly and was invested in each of their stories. The second best thing is the exploration of institutionalization and the treatment of mental illness. When LaValle combines the very, very real horror of the institution with his bunch of lovable characters, you can't help but feel for them and with them, and be frightened by the way other people treat them.LaValle's writing is still great in this book, although I did love it more in The Ballad of Black Tom. I enjoyed the sudden shifts in point of view, it gave the whole story a very movie-like feel. What threw me off were the addresses to the reader and the remarks in brackets, I didn't find them particularly clever, they just disturbed my reading flow.I will definitely be reading more stories by Victor LaValle, he's becoming one of my favourite horror authors.