P Djeli Clark Books in Order

In an alternate 1912 Cairo, investigator Fatma el-Sha'arawi examines a djinn's apparent suicide for the Ministry of Alchemy. Ghouls, assassins, and mechanical angels complicate a case that points toward a plot threatening the fabric of time.

Phenderson Djeli Clark examines why fantasy and science fiction so often reproduce Eurocentric worlds while marginalizing people of colour. Tracing patterns from Arthurian legends to contemporary fiction, he considers how writers and readers can challenge the genre’s inherited assumptions.

Streetwise Creeper hopes information about a kidnapped scientist will earn her passage aboard a smuggler’s airship. Guided by the storm goddess speaking inside her head, she joins a dangerous effort to prevent a devastating weapon from destroying New Orleans.

Agents Hamed Nasr and Onsi Youssef investigate a possessed tram car in a magical, independent Cairo. What appears routine brings them among suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient machines as a supernatural danger presses into ordinary city life.

In Prohibition-era Georgia, Maryse Boudreaux hunts supernatural monsters feeding on the Ku Klux Klan's hatred. Armed with a magic sword and joined by two companions, she confronts an otherworldly plot and the nightmares of her own past.

In magical Cairo, investigator Fatma el-Sha'arawi examines the murder of a secret brotherhood devoted to legendary al-Jahiz. The killer claims to be the vanished figure himself, using formidable powers to provoke unrest and challenge the city's order.

Warriors and a man with a cursed flute abduct everyone in Abeni’s village during the Harvest Festival. Rescued by an old woman, Abeni reluctantly begins learning magic while searching for a way to bring her stolen people home.

Resurrected assassin Eveen serves a guild whose contracts must be completed and whose members remember nothing of their former lives. A festival-time assignment brings her face-to-face with an impossible past, threatening the vows that govern her continued existence.

Determined to rescue all her people, Abeni refuses to abandon her quest and is captured by the Kingdom of Gold Weavers. Winning her freedom requires retrieving a legendary throne, sending her and her spirit companions into dangerous unfamiliar lands.

Abeni’s quest to rescue the people stolen from her village reaches its final adventure. The reluctant magic apprentice returns in a fantasy drawing on West African and African Diaspora traditions, continuing the struggle begun with the cursed flute’s song.