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Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey, THE DEAD TAKE THE A TRAIN co-authors

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 10:53 p.m.

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Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey are both powerhouse bestselling authors in their own rights. Now, they\\u2019ve merged their considerable talents in cosmic horror and urban fantasy to create the new novel, THE DEAD TAKE THE A TRAIN.

In a New York City absolutely filthy with magic\\u2014monsters and the mundane intermingle. When that cohabitation breeds horrific problems\\u2014and it always does\\u2014you need people like Julie Crews to clean up the mess. But being a coked-out, broke ass, pig-pen disaster of a magician like Julie creates as many issues as it solves.

Struggling to make rent and constantly getting screwed by her clients, Julie is desperate to score some real paying work. Complicating matters is the arrival of her childhood friend Sarah, the prim and pretty opposite to Julie\\u2019s deadbeat, mage-punk lifestyle.

Sarah\\u2019s brightness is just what she needs, and the vibes are way more than platonic. But Sarah brought her own baggage to the big city.

When Julie\\u2019s pompous Wall Street ex-boyfriend Tyler calls, offering big money for a highly suspicious job, she can\\u2019t refuse.

Getting tangled up in his lies, and the innumerable arms of a dream-eating demon, will be least of their issues, though. Because Tyler\\u2019s corporate job serves some seriously eldritch monstrosities, big ugly elder god-things on a schedule to consume their workforce. And maybe the world.

This, of course, is all about to become Julie\\u2019s giant mess to solve\\u2014and make infinitely worse along the way.

THE DEAD TAKE THE A TRAIN is a visceral, violent, wickedly fun urban fantasy available now from Tor Nightfire:

About Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw is an award-winning game writer and former scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal. Khaw\\u2019s work can be found in places like\\xa0The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Khaw\\u2019s first original novella, HAMMERS ON BONE, was a British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist, and their latest novella, NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH, was a USA Today bestseller; Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Award nominee; and an Indie Next Pick. In 2023, they won the Bram Stoker Awards Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection for BREAKABLE THINGS, a collection of short stories.

About Richard Kadrey

Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the\\xa0SANDMAN SLIM supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon\\u2019s \\u201c100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,\\u201d and is in production as a feature film. Some of Kadrey\\u2019s other books include THE GRAND DARK, THE EVERYTHING BOX, and BUTCHERBIRD. In comics, he\\u2019s written for Heavy Metal, Lucifer, and Hellblazer. He\\u2019s currently partnered with Winterlight Productions for his original horror screenplay, Dark West.

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