The Macabre (Deluxe Limited Edition)

Pre-order now to receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION– only available on the first printing while supplies last! The collector’s hardcover features stenciled edges,a stamped casea reversible jacket that readers can color in and make their ownand endpapers featuring two more paintings from the book! From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult fantasy debuta stand-alone novel blending of art historytime- and globe-hopping adventureand dark horror and fantasy about ten cursed paintings and the lengths people will go to collect themdestroy them…or be destroyed. A picture is worth a thousand nightmares. A struggling painterLewis Dixon is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in his art. While he’s always felt there’s something powerful about what he puts on canvashe also felt there was something disturbing just under the surface–especially as he was compelled to make a painting of a painting–one that he has a connection to: the object of his art is one of the ten paintings his great-grandfather created over a hundred years ago. Only Lewis’s version is surreal…and maybe just a touch horrific. Stillhe accepts the invitationonly to find not a curated showbut a test: to see if he not only has the magic necessary to enter the paintingsbut also the strength to escape them. Because unbeknownst to Lewisthere is power in his artjust as the ten paintings carry with them both immense eldritch abilities and a terrible curse–making themperhapsthe most valuable works of art in the world. And Lewis has been asked to destroy them all. With orders from a mysterious museum officialEvangelineand partnered with an alluring agent in her employNoah RaoLewis must plunge into a world of black marketsgothic magicancient historyand unspeakable terror to save those unlucky enough to call any of the paintings their ownand to hopefully locate the tenth painting in the serieslong missingthe powers of which are suspected to be most devastating of all…