The Ghoul King by Guy Haley

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic

Series: Dreaming Cities #2

Publisher:  Tor (July 12, 2016)

Author Information: Website | Twitter

Length:  176 pages

MY RATING: 4 stars

After loving Guy Haley’s first Dreaming Cities novella, The Emperor’s Railroad, I have to admit being beyond excited to get my hands on The Ghoul King. The post-apocalyptic setting, zombies, Angels, dragons, guns, and mysterious yet relatable Knight Quinn mixed to create the perfect kind of genre blending speculative fiction which I adore. Hell, even Haley’s narrative style of allowing an elderly man named Abney to relate his adventure in the wilds of the Kingdom of Virginia as a young boy with Quinn, Knight of Atlantis, worked wonderfully, adding such a mysterious tone to the story that I had to know more.

In The Ghoul King, the author actually begins the tale by focusing on the mythical…