US $16.40, UK £16.40
Fable Avenue Book I: The Ghost of Gabriel's Horn
Pub Date: August 12, 2012; 462 pages
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...
US $17.20, UK £16.40
Fable Avenue Book II: Brooklyn's Lilac Brew
Pub date: June 8, 2015; Paperback: 694 pages
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.
US $20.00, UK £16.40
Fable Avenue Book III: Love's Path To Now
Pub date: February 14, 2022; Paperback: 822 pages
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 activist 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...