The Vorrh - Softcover

B. Catling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957142714 ISBN 13: 9780957142718

Publisher: Honest Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of the Vorrh.

In B. Catling's twisting, poetic narrative, Bakelite robots lie broken - their hard shells cracked by human desire - and an inquisitive Cyclops waits for his keeper and guardian, growing in all directions. Beyond the colonial city of Essenwald lies the Vorrh, the forest which sucks souls and wipes minds. There, a writer heads out on a giddy mission to experience otherness, fallen angels observe humanity from afar, and two hunters - one carrying a bow carved from his lover, the other a charmed Lee-Enfield rifle - fight to the end.

Thousands of miles away, famed photographer Eadweard Muybridge attempts to capture the ultimate truth, as rifle heiress Sarah Winchester erects a house to protect her from the spirits of her gun's victims.

In the tradition of China Miéville, Michael Moorcock and Alasdair Gray, B. Catling's The Vorrh is literary dark fantasy which wilfully ignores boundaries, crossing over into surrealism, magic-realism, horror and steampunk.

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Review

In the literature of the fantastic, almost lost beneath a formulaic lard of dwarves and dragons, it is only rarely that a unique voice emerges with a work of genuine vision to remind the genre of what it should be aspiring to and what it's capable of doing... In Brian Catling's phosphorescent masterpiece, The Vorrh, we have one of the most original and stunning works of fantasy that it has ever been my privilege to read... The Vorrh is like a first experience of the ocean. Read this book, and marvel. --Alan Moore

There are not many books that rearrange the molecules of your being, turning your eyes inside out. The Vorrh, this saturnine post-traumatic testament, is one of them... A work of idiocy and genius. --Iain Sinclair

When even the warts of a novel are winning, it s hard to misunderstand that you have something special on your hands, and The Vorrh is absolutely that. Equal parts dark fantasy and surrealist dream, it is inescapably dense, and unrelentingly intense. Shelve it shoulder to shoulder with 2012s other most notable novels, be they of the genre or not, then consider carefully which stands lacking in comparison. ----Tor.com

Book Description

Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of the Vorrh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Honest Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0957142714
• ISBN 13: 9780957142718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496