Ring Shout in Beyond Reality

Feb 26, 2022 Carrie rated it really liked it

Please tell me this is not a standalone??

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Jul 17, 2022 Lulu rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror, novella, books-read-in-2022

Me? Giving 5* to a Lovecraftian horror?! What is the world coming to? It's the end of times indeed. Somehow, Clark managed to make me swallow my dissatisfaction with cosmic horror, and absorbed me into a fantastic, gripping novella. Even teared up at parts! I think a lot of it my usual revulsion was waylaid, ironically, by the generous helping of body horror, a genre I can never quite resist. The descriptions were vile and so, so much fun. The way Clark also weaves the horror through actual hist ...more

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Jan 13, 2021 John rated it liked it

Lovecraftian horror meets Jim Crow south with touches of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The premise is basically contemporary politics--three badass black women doing their best to save the world against forces of hatred and white supremacy. In this world, the 1915 release of The Birth of a Nation is actually a spell enacted to channel white hatred into actual demons, "Ku Kluxes" that rival anything Lovecraft dreamed up. To all but a select few, they appear to be normal white people, but in fact they ...more

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Dec 31, 2021 mina rated it liked it · review of another edition

This is so different from the previous book by him I read (the detective story about the ghost-infested tram in Cairo). This is a Ku Klux Klan-based fantasy story happening in Gullah community in Georgia.

I like the story plot of some badass young Black female killing KKKs (who are real demons in this book, intermingling with the human KKKs) with a sword conjured from thin air just by calling the deep hate she feels to the monsters (demons and humans alike).

The book is short, but I think it's no ...more

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Jan 26, 2021 Christine H rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: weird-fiction

I loved the concept and how dang weird this was. I also loved the point of view from African American women dealing with the mundane horrors of racism, as well as supernatural forces linked to the Klan. The monsters were admirably disturbing and Lovecraftian as well. *Shudder*

My complaints can be mostly boiled down to: I wanted more. This is a short read, and while it can be good not to overstay one's welcome, I felt like I wasn't super engaged with the characters because I saw so little of them ...more

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