Ring Shout is such a terrific read that you are likely to gobble up its under 200 pages in one sitting. This was highlighted in Damon Lindelof’s superlative HBO series Watchmen, and of course announced as the venue for Trump’s next campaign rally at end June … Ah, imagine if only one of the slavering KKK monsters from Ring Shout can make an appearance there and lay waste to the proceedings! It definitely explains the rich vein of historicity that runs throughout Ring Shout, including the Tulsa massacre.
I also did not know that PDC “works as an academic historian whose research spans comparative slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world”. To confuse matters even further, he has also used A. Apparently the two names are used for his fiction and non-fiction respectively. I did not know that PDC is the pseudonym for Dexter Gabriel, whom I have not read before. With very real blood being spilled on the streets of America, isn’t it trivialising to (re)imagine the KKK as a bunch of Lovecraftian monsters, when we see very ordinary-looking monsters on our television screens every day? Having read most of PDC’s previous tor.com novellas, I must admit to not being quite sold on this one from the get-go. Now, rising in power and prominence, the Klan has a plot to unleash Hell on Earth.” If that doesn’t immediately grab your attention …
Griffith is a sorcerer, and The Birth of a Nation is a spell that drew upon the darkest thoughts and wishes from the heart of America. The plot of this novella can be summed up in a few lines: “D.W. It is weird how so many books are being published right now that were obviously written well before the current load of crap hit the fan, but which speak to global events with an urgency and a directness that seems quite prophetic.
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