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Mrs. Mina Braithwaite has never quite fit into Mydalla's polite society. Her features are so different from the other noblewomen, more like the city's foreign workers, and she chafes at all the rules. Then there's the furious entity that has followed her for years, crawling from shadows to hurt her and staining every memory with fear. Desperate for help, Mina crashes a private gathering to see the infamous occultist Alexandre DuMort in action. She doesn't expect the pull of attraction towards the man, nor his invitation to join him in his work. But DuMort has enemies, dangerous ones, and they dog his steps as closely as Mina's entity does hers. Mina must choose between her old life, and the angry spirit that stalks her, or follow the famed occultist down a new path, where even worse things might haunt her. Like the truth. Praise for DuMort: "In DuMort, Tang uses language like a needle, stitching together patches of loneliness and longing until you're left draped in an ever-shifting quilt of tragedy. Our return to Mydalla is as thrilling as our first glimpse of the suffocating society. There's intrigue. Class warfare. Love lost--or worse, transmutated into something toxic, something cancerous. If all this wasn't striking enough, the final image of DuMort is one that'll stay with me for years to come." -- Christopher O'Halloran, author of PUSHING DAISY "With DuMort, Michelle Tang delivers a stunning work of dystopian gothic fiction, honoring the genre's traditions while interweaving fantastic new threads. Tang conjures a world full of candlelit shadows and whispered secrets, and the novel is impeccably constructed, with lush, evocative prose. Fans looking for more of the eerie elegance of Nosferatu will not be disappointed." -- Jolie Toomajan, Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor of Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic "Tang's dark, elegant prose is equally at home in the glitz of secret high society gatherings as skulking around the grime of nocturnal alleys in this haunting