The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.
Nor do they have tails.
But they are most assuredly dead.
Nebula and Alex Award winner P. Djèlí Clark introduces a brand-new world and a fantastical city full of gods and assassins.
Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins―resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories―have only three unbreakable vows.
First, the contract must be just. That’s above Eveen’s pay grade.
Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the contracted. Eveen’s a professional. She’s never missed her mark.
The third and the once you accept a job, you must carry it out. And if you stray? A final death would be a mercy. When the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the city upside down, Eveen’s newest mission brings her face-to-face with a past she isn’t supposed to remember and a vow she can’t forget.
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.
Nor do they have tails.
But they are most assuredly dead.
Nebula and Alex Award winner P. Djèlí Clark introduces a brand-new world and a fantastical city full of gods and assassins.
Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins―resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories―have only three unbreakable vows.
First, the contract must be just. That’s above Eveen’s pay grade.
Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the contracted. Eveen’s a professional. She’s never missed her mark.
The third and the once you accept a job, you must carry it out. And if you stray? A final death would be a mercy. When the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the city upside down, Eveen’s newest mission brings her face-to-face with a past she isn’t supposed to remember and a vow she can’t forget.
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Alternate historical fantasy and speculative fiction gained a distinct voice with the release of the novel A Master of Djinn, which reimagines an early twentieth-century Cairo filled with magic, spirits, and complex mystery. Written by P. Djèlí Clark, the work builds on a rich foundation of short fiction and novellas that blend mythology, history, and folklore.
From dark fantasy reimaginings of historical eras to vibrant magical worlds, Clark has constructed a wide-ranging body of fiction. His works include acclaimed novellas such as Ring Shout and The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, as well as middle-grade fantasy adventures like Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold.
Born Dexter Gabriel in Queens, New York, in 1971, Clark spent his early life in Houston, Texas, and lived during formative years in Trinidad and Tobago, the homeland of his parents. He pursued higher education at Texas State University, earning both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts, before completing his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in New York. As the first member of his family to earn a college degree, he established an academic career as a professor of history at the University of Connecticut.
Under the pen name P. Djèlí Clark (and Phenderson Djèlí Clark), he began publishing speculative short stories in the early 2010s in venues such as Tor.com, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Fireside Fiction, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, as well as print anthologies like Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. Beyond his fiction writing, Clark is a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and has served as a reviewer for Strange Horizons.
Clark's writing frequently merges rigorous historical knowledge with speculative elements, drawing upon African, Caribbean, and Islamic mythologies, folklore, and alternate histories. His narratives often explore themes of imperialism, race, resistance, and cultural identity, using detailed period settings as backdrops for supernatural intrigue and investigative mysteries.
Technically, his prose balances detailed world-building with fast-paced storytelling and sharp characterization. Whether writing about airships over an alternate nineteenth-century New Orleans, magical investigators in Cairo, or dark supernatural forces in the Jim Crow American South, Clark weaves historical research into immersive speculative environments.
4 books in catalog
Alternate historical fantasy and speculative fiction gained a distinct voice with the release of the novel A Master of Djinn, which reimagines an early twentieth-century Cairo filled with magic, spirits, and complex mystery. Written by P. Djèlí Clark, the work builds on a rich foundation of short fiction and novellas that blend mythology, history, and folklore.
From dark fantasy reimaginings of historical eras to vibrant magical worlds, Clark has constructed a wide-ranging body of fiction. His works include acclaimed novellas such as Ring Shout and The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, as well as middle-grade fantasy adventures like Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold.
Born Dexter Gabriel in Queens, New York, in 1971, Clark spent his early life in Houston, Texas, and lived during formative years in Trinidad and Tobago, the homeland of his parents. He pursued higher education at Texas State University, earning both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts, before completing his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in New York. As the first member of his family to earn a college degree, he established an academic career as a professor of history at the University of Connecticut.
Under the pen name P. Djèlí Clark (and Phenderson Djèlí Clark), he began publishing speculative short stories in the early 2010s in venues such as Tor.com, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Fireside Fiction, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, as well as print anthologies like Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. Beyond his fiction writing, Clark is a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and has served as a reviewer for Strange Horizons.
Clark's writing frequently merges rigorous historical knowledge with speculative elements, drawing upon African, Caribbean, and Islamic mythologies, folklore, and alternate histories. His narratives often explore themes of imperialism, race, resistance, and cultural identity, using detailed period settings as backdrops for supernatural intrigue and investigative mysteries.
Technically, his prose balances detailed world-building with fast-paced storytelling and sharp characterization. Whether writing about airships over an alternate nineteenth-century New Orleans, magical investigators in Cairo, or dark supernatural forces in the Jim Crow American South, Clark weaves historical research into immersive speculative environments.
