The Devil in Silver
  • Published: 25 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804998687
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $28.00
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The Devil in Silver

  • Victor LaValle
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25 Nov 2025
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Soon to be a major TV series from the creators of The Terror, a stunning literary horror novel from an award-winning novelist.

New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.

Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die?

The Devil in Silver is a thrillingly suspenseful literary work about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.
  • Published: 25 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804998687
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $28.00
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Praise for The Devil in Silver

A fearless exploration of America's heart of darkness...A dizzying high-wire act.

Washington Post

Fantastical, hellish, and hilarious.

Los Angeles Times

It's simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.

New York Times

Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America's inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.

Boston Globe

LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist.

The New Republic

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LaValle hooks the reader deep into his increasingly eldritch thriller.

Guardian

Wonderfully creepy and impossible to put down.

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