Series
Sandman Slim
Richard Kadrey · 12 novels · 1 novella · 2 short stories · 2009–2023
Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim follows James Stark, a magician who spent eleven years trapped fighting in Hell before escaping back to a Los Angeles that isn't much friendlier, looking for revenge against the circle that sent him there. Getting it turns out to mean picking up unwanted allies, including a severed talking head, and getting dragged into schemes run by both Heaven and Hell that have nothing to do with his own plans. The series keeps Stark as a foul-mouthed, magic-augmented antihero across thirteen increasingly baroque supernatural-noir books.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Sandman Slim at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s1
- 2010s10
- 2020s4
Shape
12 novels · 1 novella · 2 short stories
1 author
reads like:urban fantasydemonsour worldcontemporarydarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book13 of 15 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Hollywood Deaddarkest · calmest
- Sandman Slimbrightest
- Kill City Bluesmost intense