A 2024 Dragon Awards for Best Horror Novel nominee! " I loved The Dead Take the A Train . Strange, visceral urban fantasy with a horror bent." --V.E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author "An excellent grim and gory tale." -- Library Journal , STARRED review "An original, thought-provoking, and entertaining title that will call to readers from multiple dimensions." -- Booklist , STARRED review "Deliciously down and dirty.Khaw's and Kadrey's styles are a perfect match throughout.
Fans of urban fantasy, neo-noir, and pulp horror won't want to miss this raucous adventure." -- Publishers Weekly , STARRED review "Khaw and Kadrey are a powerful team of genre-blending mad geniuses, and The Dead Take the A Train is a gore-covered cake for horror lovers." -- Tor.com "An addictive, sprawling yarn. This city brims with underhanded dealings and odd magic, and every corner writhes with fresh horrors and delights." -- Hailey Piper , Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Worm and His Kings "The first in a pair of new books set in a magical, spooky version of New York City, The Dead Take the A Train packs a great concept and the combined talent of a horror superteam." -- Paste "Everything old is new again in this comically horrific team-up.An enchanting introduction to a magical bitch on wheels, to be continued.
" -- Kirkus Reviews "This is lush gore, a bloody fantastic ride where people with metaphorical demons fight literal ones, and the lost are saved not by grace but by barbed wire and love. Hop on this train now." -- Kevin Hearne , New York Times bestselling author " The Dead Take the A Train incorporates everything that's best about both authors into a seamless whole and adds a touch of something uniquely weird and wonderful. The result is fun, thrilling, and compulsively readable." -- John Langan , author of The Fisherman "A fast-paced madhouse of mayhem combining the best of Kadrey's thrillers with Khaw's gruesome Lovecraftian horror. The Dead Take the A Train is a blast and highly recommended for dark fantasy and horror fans looking for a good time." -- Grimdark Magazine "Fast-paced and thoroughly entertaining!" -- Lucy A. Snyder , author of Sister, Maiden, Monster "Khaw and Kadrey raise eldritch gore to an art form.
Eye-searing horror that's impossible to look away from, I already can't wait for the next book." -- Kat Howard , author of the Unseen World duology "[O]ffsets its recognizable New York City setting with a relentless barrage of visceral body horror and deliriously twisted humor. a depraved carnival of nightmares and eldritch narcotics." -- BookPage "Frenetic, unrelenting, and deeply rich in world and character. Khaw and Kadrey have created a kaleidoscopic carnival of horrors and wonders." -- Matt Wallace , author of the Sin du Jour and Savage Rebellion series.