New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.

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 down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die?

The Devil in Silver is a thrillingly suspenseful literary work about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.

Praise for The Devil in Silver * : *
A fearless exploration of America's heart of darkness...A dizzying high-wire act. * Washington Post *
Fantastical, hellish, and hilarious. * Los Angeles Times *
It's simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two. * New York Times *
Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America's inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic. * Boston Globe *
LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist. * The New Republic *
Praise for Victor LaValle * : *
LaValle hooks the reader deep into his increasingly eldritch thriller. * Guardian *
Wonderfully creepy and impossible to put down. * Buzzfeed *

Victor LaValle is the author of eight works of fiction: five novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, an American Book Award, two Bram Stoker Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. His novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation and Publishers Weekly, among others. The Devil in Silver is soon to be a major TV series. He lives in the Bronx with his wife and kids and teaches at Columbia University.