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THE MACABRE
A Novel
From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult debut, a standalone novel blending of art history, time- and globe-hopping adventure, and dark horror and fantasy about ten cursed paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy them...or be destroyed.
A picture is worth a thousand nightmares.
A struggling painter, Lewis Dixon is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in his art. While he's always felt there's something powerful about what he puts on canvas, he also felt there was something disturbing just under the surface especially as he was compelled to make a painting of a paintingone that he has a connection to: the object of his art is one of the ten paintings his ancestor had created over a hundred years ago. Only his version is surreal...and maybe just a touch horrific.
Certainly not something the snobby art world is going to admire.
Still, he accepts the invitation, only to find not a curated show, but a test: to see if not only he has the magic necessary to enter the paintings, but also the strength to escape them. Because unbeknownst to Lewis, there is power in his art, just as his ancestor's ten paintings carry with them both immense eldritch abilities and a terrible cursemaking them, perhaps, the most valuable paintings in the world.
And Lewis has been asked to destroy them all.
With orders from a mysterious museum official, Cassandra, and partnered with a handsome agent in her employ, Noah Rao, Lewis must plunge into a world of black markets, gothic magic, ancient history, and unspeakable terror to save those unlucky enough to call any of the paintings their own, and to hopefully locate the tenth painting in the series, long missing, the powers of which are suspected to be most devastating of all...
A struggling painter, Lewis Dixon is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in his art. While he's always felt there's something powerful about what he puts on canvas, he also felt there was something disturbing just under the surface especially as he was compelled to make a painting of a paintingone that he has a connection to: the object of his art is one of the ten paintings his ancestor had created over a hundred years ago. Only his version is surreal...and maybe just a touch horrific.
Certainly not something the snobby art world is going to admire.
Still, he accepts the invitation, only to find not a curated show, but a test: to see if not only he has the magic necessary to enter the paintings, but also the strength to escape them. Because unbeknownst to Lewis, there is power in his art, just as his ancestor's ten paintings carry with them both immense eldritch abilities and a terrible cursemaking them, perhaps, the most valuable paintings in the world.
And Lewis has been asked to destroy them all.
With orders from a mysterious museum official, Cassandra, and partnered with a handsome agent in her employ, Noah Rao, Lewis must plunge into a world of black markets, gothic magic, ancient history, and unspeakable terror to save those unlucky enough to call any of the paintings their own, and to hopefully locate the tenth painting in the series, long missing, the powers of which are suspected to be most devastating of all...
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Published 2025-09-09 by Harper Voyager |