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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 Mieville, 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 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)
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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)
Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of the Vorrh.
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- PublisherCoronet
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1473606624
- ISBN 13 9781473606623
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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