Night Magic

A modern day retelling of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, set in New York City, Night Magic is a mesmerizing novel of ancient secrets and black magic, a story of the occult by the bestselling author of such horror classics as Harvest Home and The Other. Drawing on the parallel story The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Tom Tryon has fashioned a spellbinding contemporary novel of an ambitious, sometimes overzealous young man who grasps the lure dangled before him, and who finds that real magic has no mercy. A novel of the occult set in New York. The hero is Michael Hawke, a mime artist so impressed by the way Max Wurlitzer, a magician, takes control of his mime show he volunteers to become Wurlitzer's assistant. In no time his life takes a sinister turn and he will need all his wits to avoid losing his soul. By the author of The Other An amateur magician is approached by a mysterious old man who offers him a taste of true sorcery and is torn between the human life he has been following and the dark world of mystical arts that threatens to overtake him and the woman he loves. 75,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.