The Devil in Silver A Novel

Victor LaValle

eBook - 2012

New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. “A dizzying high-wire act.”—The Washington Post“Fantastical, hellish, and hilarious.”—Los Angeles Times“By turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.”—The Boston Globe ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes do...wn. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster... more