The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle

A “striking,” “extraordinary,” and “culturally observant”* literary horror about four inmates trapped in a haunted mental ward fighting off a fifth: the Devil (*The New Republic, Paste Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review).

Pepper shouldn’t have been there in the first place. But on his first night at the New Hyde Hospital’s mental ward he witnesses an impossible vision: the Devil appears in the guise of an old man with a bison’s head and murderous intent. It’s no delusion—the Devil roams the halls of New Hyde, terrorizing its patients when the sun goes down. Pepper teams with three other strangely loveable patients—an 82-year-old depressive grandmother, an African immigrant with OCD, and a violent 19-year-old bipolar black girl—to try to kill the monster that’s been stalking them. But can the Devil die?