The Vorrh - Hardcover

Catling, B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0957142722 ISBN 13: 9780957142725

Publisher: Honest Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Taking its name from the imaginary African forest in Raymond Roussel's Impressions of Africa, The Vorrh is a magnificent, vibrant backdrop on which to stage a high octane narrative led by hunter, Tsungali, the Cyclops, Ishmael and famous photographer Eadweard Muybridge. In contrast with the tired clichs of the traditional fantasy tale, The Vorrh is an invigorating, epic fantasy at its most original, ground-breaking and visionary. Features a foreword from the legendary comics and graphic novel creator, Alan Moore

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Review

In Brian Catling's phosphorescent masterpiece The Vorrh we have one of the most original and stunning works of fantasy that has ever been my privilege to read, a brilliant and sustained piece of invention which establishes a benchmark not just for imaginative writing but for the human imagination in itself. After investigating other worlds of fantasy, The Vorrh is like a first experience of the ocean. Read this book, and marvel. (Alan Moore)

Brian Catling is simply a genius. His writing is so extraordinary it hurts, it makes me realize how little imagination I have. (Terry Gilliam)

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 genius. (Iain Sinclair)

I am glad to have the book as a companion on my own dark quest. (Tom Waits)

I really loved Brian Catling's The Vorrh. It's a hot storm of a novel bursting with art and history, sex and nature. A visionary fantasy epic that is incredibly fun to read. Wildly different, but no less remarkable (Max Porter)

The English language has given birth to some great works of unbounded vision and imagination, and here is another one... It's a very sophisticated and subtle exploration of the decadent, primitive and the mythical. Many books are said to be like nothing else, and aren't, but Brian Catling's really is. (Phillip Pullman)

Catling's novel reads like a long-lost classic of Decadent or Symbolist literature, with that same sense of timelessness. It's peculiar, wildly imaginative, unafraid to transgress and get lost, and is unlike anything I've ever read. (Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy)

Darkly imaginative. . . . Packed with striking images . . . real beauty and power. (Kirkus)

One of the most original works of visionary fiction since Mervyn Peake. (The Guardian, Michael Moorcock)

This is fine stuff. Like the best fantasy writers Catling succeeds in creating a compelling and believable parallel dimension. (Daily Mail)

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: 0957142722
• ISBN 13: 9780957142725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512