A Black and Endless Sky

By Matthew Lyons,

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One of Tor Nightfire's "Horror Books We're Excited About in 2022"!

"Lyons burnishes his reputation as a rising horror star . . . [and] keeps the pages flying with fast-paced chills." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)


From the author of The Night Will Find Us comes a white-knuckled horror-thriller set across…

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2 authors picked A Black and Endless Sky as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is horror for adrenaline fiends, but it has emotional depths and a rich cast of well-developed characters to balance out its fast-paced thrills.

My favorite character in this book, and one of my favorites in the whole horror canon, is Nell Talbot, one half of the brother-sister duo of protagonists. Nell is a 100-proof disaster bisexual, surfing a wave of her own bad choices all the way to shore.

You know how a story is supposed to have an inciting incident? Nell Talbot is the inciting incident.

Jonah, who’d been married for 12 years, decides to leave California and head back home on the open road to Albuquerque with his sister Nell. As Nell and Jonah cross the American West, is there an underlying message that happiness can be found anywhere, even for those who’ve left home in search of greater things?

As siblings, Nell and Jonah’s rocky relationship is the centerpiece of the story. It showcases a mythological and supernatural element fans of dark fantasy will relish. As the novel climaxes, we find Nell possessed by an ancient spirit, and the deeper this mysterious possession latches…

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