Ring Shout

How it reads

Ring Shout is horror (historical cosmic horror, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in a big city setting, in the historical past, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are justice, survival and power and politics. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 185 pages it's a single-sitting book. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.