
Ghosts of Manhattan
Kindle Edition
Pyr · Ebook · April 27, 2010
1926.
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- Who it’s for
- A strange, shadowed New York gives the Roaring Twenties a supernatural edge.
- Genres
- Urban Fantasy, Steampunk, Alternate History
- Published
- Pyr, April 27, 2010
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1926. New York. The Roaring Twenties. Jazz. Flappers. Prohibition. Coal-powered cars. A cold war with a British Empire that still covers half of the globe. Yet things have developed differently from established history. America is in the midst of a cold war with a British Empire that has only just buried Queen Victoria, her life artificially preserved to the age of 107.
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Coal-powered cars roar along roads thick with pedestrians, biplanes take off from standing with primitive rocket boosters, and monsters lurk behind closed doors and around every corner. This is a time in need of heroes. It is a time for The Ghost. A series of targeted murders are occurring all over the city, the victims found with ancient Roman coins placed on their eyelids after death. The trail appears to lead to a group of Italian-American gangsters and their boss, who the mobsters have dubbed 'The Roman'. However, as The Ghost soon discovers, there is more to The Roman than at first appears, and more bizarre happenings that he soon links to the man, including moss-golems posing as mobsters and a plot to bring an ancient pagan god into the physical world in a cavern beneath the city. As The Ghost draws nearer to The Roman and the center of his dangerous web, he must battle with foes both physical and supernatural and call on help from the most unexpected of quarters if he is to stop The Roman and halt the imminent destruction of the city.
The Uncanny Twenties
A strange, shadowed New York gives the Roaring Twenties a supernatural edge.
Come here for
- Jazz-age streets, coal-powered cars, and rocket-assisted biplanes
- A brisk collision of alternate history and supernatural menace
Expect
- Mob intrigue threaded with monsters and ancient myth
- A world where history takes a decidedly odd turn
Where it sits
| Alternate History | 55% |
|---|---|
| Steampunk | 51% |
| Urban Fantasy | 47% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Fantasy
- Paranormal Fantasy
- Urban Fantasy
- Authors
- George Mann
- Publisher
- Pyr
- Published
- April 27, 2010
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Historical Fantasy