A Night in the Lonesome October

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Snuff, the intelligent dog belonging to a man known as Jack, records each night of an extraordinary October in late-Victorian London. A rare blue moon on Halloween will thin the boundary between worlds, enabling a secret company of occult players either to open a gateway for the Great Old Ones or seal them away. As Jack, Dracula, the Wolf Man, witches, druids, and a suspicious detective maneuver toward the decisive ritual, their near-human animal familiars gather clues, trade favors, and cautiously test one another’s loyalties. Told as a month-long diary, the novel filters cosmic horror and Victorian Gothic mythology through Snuff’s practical, observant voice, balancing grim comedy with an increasingly dangerous contest over whether the existing world will survive.

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