Ring Shout: An Evening with P. Djèlí Clark

Schedule

Tue Oct 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

2153 1st Ave S | St. Petersburg, FL

Celebrate the paperback release of the Tombolo Staff fave, Ring Shout!
About this Event

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark's Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror, is coming out in paperback and he is heading to Tombolo Books to celebrate the release!

Ring Shout was an instant staff favorite when it was first published in 2020, so Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome Clark to the bookstore to tell us more about this "fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination" (The New York Times).

More about Ring Shout

IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS.

In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.

Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan's demons straight to Hell. But something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.

Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?

Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. DJÈLÍ CLARK (he/him) spent part of his childhood in Trinidad and Tobago, the homeland of his parents. He is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn and the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. He has won the Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Awards. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies, including Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is also a founding member of FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.

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2153 1st Ave S, 2153 1st Avenue South, St. Petersburg, United States
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