Harlem jazz trumpeter Pete Peters was murdered in 1933 just hours before the birth of his son. Twenty-four years later, now a young man, Horatio Peters believes he’s only chasing his father’s genius rather than following in his musical footsteps. A remarkable jazz trumpeter in his own right, Horatio struggles with playing original pieces left behind by his father. The works play perfectly in his head but become a muddled mess when sounded through his earthly horn. Seeking his father’s music teachers, Horatio’s journey will take him to Clarksdale, Mississippi. There he will meet the grand music instructors Jackson and Gaston Fable and all their wondrous tricks, rich history, and thumping music. Horatio’s melodic odyssey will collide with the stories of three generations of women from Water Bug Hollow, Louisiana, a seductive and wicked woman of fair beauty, and the proper keys to unlock the endearing story of another lifetime hidden in the mysterious notations of his father’s music. Author Justin Thomas’ grand conjure series, THE FABLE AVENUE SAGA, begins at the mystical, Mississippi crossroads with a tale of music, magic, and murder…

Fable Avenue Book I: The Ghost of Gabriel's Horn

Literature & Fiction

Thomas, Justin

United States

Twin Griffin Books

With parallel stories playing out in both contemporary and historical times, the third installment of THE FABLE AVENUE SAGA is an epic tale continuing author Justin Thomas' Black Speculative Fiction conjure series.ON FABLE AVENUE the search for the conjure children abducted by Stanley Fallows' needlemen and night doctors continues, as he and his wife siphon power and essence from the young ones, configured into flowers, drained from their colorful petals.Lillian Eledas-Ghedemere, called Voodoo Lily, takes her rightful place as the newly crowned Crossroads Queen. Spearheading a reconquest of WATER BUG HOLLOW with her consort, Armand Gideon, as they search for the buried and hexed bones of a murdered political to disperse the cursed fog that keeps the area locked in poverty and gang violence.Gordon Goodspeed works overtime, operating alongside his brother's crew, The Gypsy Moon Misfits, in search of the kidnapped children and fighting off Stanley Fallows' new rogues' gallery of formidable Blood Cursers. Using his conjure-tech device named Spook, he also dreams of history in an attempt to locate Lady Arachne's missing Lovers card to complete her ancient tarot deck. His dreaming unravels a fairy-tale-like epic that begins in a time considered myth among conjure folk and continues into the 17th century to the stars above AFRICA, where two tricksters clash in ideologies amid the terrible, African slave trade.Pinpointing the whereabouts of The Lovers card gives Gordon belief that its use in ritual will bring back his sweetheart, Fey Forrester, and her cosmic, cobalt-blue flame spirit. As he observes players in history positioned around the ancient, powerful tarot card, he gathers clues from each viewing on how and where The Lovers make their journey to now...

Fable Avenue Book III: Love's Path To Now

The second installment to THE FABLE AVENUE SAGA. It's been 57 years since the blare of a mystical horn and the otherworldly voice of a jazz songstress brought Fable Avenue out of the ether and into physical existence among the streets that make up the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York. People from all over the African diaspora have flocked to this street, answering the musical call sent out by enchanted jazz and blues songs, becoming permanent residents and adding to Fable Avenue's conjure culture. With a full blown conjure society consisting of ancient African systems, Fable Avenue moves closer to its destiny. When community members and sweethearts Gordon Goodspeed and Fey Forrester begin scribing a grand, mythological tale it will guide them to the stars to dance with cosmic spirits, haunt the streets of New York to protect innocent residents, and bring Fable Avenue closer to procuring the Grand Wish.

Fable Avenue Book II: Brooklyn's Lilac Brew

Keith Joseph is a confidence man, a young 24-year old Black schemer with confidence. He's always had a method to his madness, a point to his sharp intellect. Now, he's about to add rhyme to his reason. Keith Joseph plans to steal the entire genre of Hip Hop. And to do this, he's going to assemble a crew of fellow confidence men, pranksters, a retired beat maker, and a poet to break into the toughest, most well concealed, heavily guarded place on the planet ... ... The Music Industry. From the author of 12 Stories High and The Ronin Poetz comes Code-47: Memoirs of a Hip Hop Heist.

Code-47: Memoirs of a Hip Hop Heist

A little black boy searches for his history and origin. A spiritual love triangle takes place. A black woman is trapped where she does not belong. A young African warrior journeys into Egypt for one last mission. A free black man living in the conditions of 19th century American slavery is stalked by a menacing phantom. A Moorish woman is afraid of her own beauty. A young man is granted the powers of a Genie. A man waits for a wife to return home. A Chinese Monk and a Moorish swordsmen form an alliance. Four black gunmen look for justice in the Old West. You recall an anecdote about Jesus. A young black man escapes from a secret Government prison. Welcome to imagination beyond imagination. 12 Stories High: The Imaginative Trip Thru a Black Mind Loving. Romantic. Enlightening. Magical. Haunting. Violent. These 12 stories strike Black Literature like nothing it has ever seen before.

12 Stories High: The Imaginative Trip Thru a Black Mind

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

North Africa, 1640. Welcome to al-Mari Ifriq, a small city dreaming of its borders to reach the coast. Its dusty, unpaved roads and small districts set the unofficial borders, providing reminders of the minor squabbles initiated by surrounding maritime companies that vie for control of each other, the city, and the entire region of Odongo-Mauharim. Thus sets the grand African tale of Moorish Company Bosses, corsairs, and kingdoms involved in all manner of legitimate and illicit politics. Join the adventure of three African states. The first, a city ruled by corsair politics. The second, a Kingdom on the brink of war. The last, a nomadic nation marked by Europeans for enslavement. Corsairs. Revolutionary warriors. Merchants, slavers, and gangsters. Join the Company.

A Company of Moors

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