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SUMMER OF ‘77.
In a city on the edge and obsessed with a serial killer, Sylvie Stroud is dealing with an entirely different kind of evil when she awakens a dark magic hellbent on consuming her.
Seventeen-year-old Sylvie Stroud can see the past of any building just by touching it. Her powers have always been reliable, until one day she sees the memory of a teenage girl’s murder without touching anything at all. There's a lot of violence in New York City, especially in 1977, but this is different. When the vision keeps repeating, Sylvie begins to investigate. But doing so accidentally awakens an old, parasitic magic lurking just beneath the surface of her beleaguered city. Now all it wants is Sylvie, and it will go through everyone Sylvie loves to have her.
Featuring fully illustrated chapters.
COMING SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
early praise for welcome to fear city
“WELCOME TO FEAR CITY has every flavor of horror I love: supernatural mystery, violent histories, and creepy spectral dog-things. But it’s also a story about friendship and growing up, enhanced by its period setting, late-70s New York brought to vivid, tactile life. You can almost smell the garbage and hear the echo of CBGB. Dvojack brings the goods. Something to chill your bones on sweltering city nights.”
— aDAM cESARE
Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of INFLUENCER and CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD
“Vivid, immersive and thrilling... Dvojak skillfully offers a vibrant glimpse into New York City’s past, crafted with care, detail and populated with a host of compelling characters. Sylvie’s psychometric powers showcase a sweeping breadth of city history; well-researched truths that help ground the truly harrowing speculative elements of a pulse-pounding story.”
— Leanna Renee Hieber
Award-winning, bestselling author of A Haunted History of Invisible Women.”
“The ghosts of 1970's summer in NYC are brought to terrifying life in Sarah Dvojack's smashing debut, Welcome to Fear City, a velvety tale that's part Scooby Mystery, part Pan's Labyrinth, and all mesmerising entertainment! Readers will be swept up in Sylvie's story of murder and monsters in vintage Big Apple...and checking for black dogs behind them.”
— Ellie Marney
New York Times bestselling author of None Shall Sleep