What are you writing now? What do you have coming out? Along the way, we gave each other suggestions about our works in progress, and tested the other’s mettle for fun. (The Kindle, as though propelled by the fear of an errant thief convinced of his own creative end, manifested with an apology note.) It was all very casual at first. We expressed our mutual outrage over the kind of lowlife who would steal someone’s entire library of books, and plotted various methods of death for them.Īfter running through a variety of human and inhuman tortures, we began chatting about our work. And that would have been the end of it, except for the damn thief.
I’d read Hammers on Bone and enjoyed it immensely, and she was a fan of my novel, Butcher Bird. We knew each other in the vaguest way back then. I heard about it from a somewhat angry, somewhat bewildered post she made on Twitter. Here’s what Richard and Cassandra have to say about the genesis of this project and collaboration:Ĭassandra and I would probably have never collaborated on The Dead Take the A Train if someone hadn’t stolen her Kindle. But when the angel is actually an elder god gone mad, the body count rises rapidly… That’s why she decides to find herself a guardian angel. She’s trying to establish herself as a major Psychic Operative in the New York magic scene, but unlike the other Ops she’ll work the worst, the grubbiest, and scariest jobs the city has to offer.īut while Julie is good at her job, she can’t seem to catch a break career-wise. She’s smart, tough, stubborn, and consumes enough drugs and alcohol to stun a rhino. Julia Crews-Julie to her friends-packs a lot of magic into her small body. The Dead Take the A Train is the first book in the Carrion City series-a fast-paced dark fantasy that combines Kadrey’s flair for the supernatural and dark humor with Khaw’s gift for twisted, Lovecraftian horror. Richard Kadrey and Cassandra Khaw’s The Dead Take the A Train, about a freelance psychic operative tracking an ever-morphing supernatural serial killer in New York City, will be published by Nightfire in Summer 2022!
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