Katabasis Release Party

Event Details

Event type: Licensed

Descend into the Literary Underworld…
Be among the first brave souls to claim your copy of Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, a tale forged in the shadows and destined to ignite the imagination.

Join us for a night of infernal celebration as we mark the release of this highly anticipated novel. Step beyond the veil and into a realm where myth meets memory, and stories burn brighter than fire.

Each ticket grants you passage and includes:

• A copy of Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
• An exclusive enamel pin to ward off the darkness
• A Temporary tattoo to mark your descent
• Live tarot readings to illuminate your path
• A custom book stamp station to seal your tome with infernal flair
• Participate in fiendish activities and trivia to test your wits and tempt your fate—only the clever shall ascend!
• A DJ spinning otherworldly tunes to summon the spirits of story
• Sinfully good snacks to sustain your soul through the revelry
• A bar stocked with elixirs and potions to quench your thirst as you journey through the literary abyss

And beware… all ticket holders have a chance to win a rare and coveted book tote, stitched with secrets from the underworld. 💀

Dare to descend. Rise transformed.

About the Book

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. 

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.