The Macabre - Kosoko Jackson

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION features red sprayed edges, a reversible jacket that readers can color in and make their own, and endpapers featuring two more paintings from the book! Available for a limited time while supplies last.From award-winning andUSA Todaybestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut, a stand-alone novel blending time travel and globe-hopping adventure, art history, and dark fantasy about magical paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy themor be destroyed.A picture is worth a thousand nightmares.Art has always been an escape for struggling painter Lewis Dixon. But other than his mom, who has recently passed away, no one has ever praised his work. If he is being honest, theres really no one in his life. So he is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in his art.This is his chance to show the world what hes capable ofhe just has no idea that he might also be saving the world at the same time.As Lewis soon learns, he has not been invited to participate in a curated show, but rather a test: to see if the fugue-like exhilaration he experiences when painting is actually magic, a power that allows him to enter nine very special paintingspaintings made by his great-grandfather.Spread across the globe, these paintings have unbelievable eldritch abilitiesand not necessarily beneficial ones. In terms of power, these are the most valuable works of art in the world, and there are those out there who would d
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