Even though the book was short in pages, it still gave us little tidbits of each of the women that made me love them. I really loved the characters, these strong women fighting alongside each other.
The scenes would be considered graphic, with the demons and disguised demons described like the stuff of nightmares, but this all lent itself well to the story and wasn’t over the top or overly gross (that I found). Horror is not a typical genre for me but when it’s done well, I do enjoy it. Coming in at under 200 pages, this novel/novella centers around Maryse and her gang of resistance fighters who are not only pushing back against the Klu Klux Klan as strong Black women, but also against actual Demons called Klu Kluxes (and more otherworldly beings) who thrive and feed on the hate living inside the racist members of the Klan and use it to grow and bring Hell to earth-unless the resistance fighters can stop them.īefore jumping into this one I knew it involved demons but I did not know it fit itself comfortably into the horror genre. When so inclined he rambles on issues of speculative fiction, politics, and diversity at his aptly named blog The Disgruntled Haradrim.Ring Shout is a small book that packs a big punch.
Lovecraft to critiques of George Schuyler’s Black Empire, and has been a panelist and lecturer at conventions, workshops and other genre events.Īt current time, he resides in a small Edwardian castle in New England with his wife, infant daughters, and pet dragon (who suspiciously resembles a Boston Terrier). He melds this interest in history and the social world with speculative fiction, and has written articles on issues ranging from racism and H.P. Djèlí Clark works as an academic historian whose research spans comparative slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World. He is a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.īorn in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, he spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots, Hidden Youth and Clockwork Cairo. “Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015.
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