Now that I’m done pontificating about the Divine Comedy, I’ll take it down a notch and look at James Blish’s modern-day occult fantasy novel Black Easter.  Most reprintings collect Black Easter with its sequel, The Day After Judgment, as one work under the title The Devil’s Day.  Given Black Easter’s abrupt ending — I hesitate even to call it a cliffhanger — the Devil’s Day format is the best package.  Although the tale goes a little flat in the second half, if “modern-day occult fantasy” sounds like something you would be interested in, you will like this book.

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Cover of the combined version.  Fairly tame by the standards of Baen.