'A benchmark not just for imaginative writing but for the human imagination in itself Read this book & marvel' Alan Moore'A work of genius' Iain Sinclair' Brian Catling is simply a genius His writing is so extraordinary it hurts' Terry Gilliam In the tradition of China Mieville Michael Moorcock & Alasdair Gray B Catling's The Vorrh is literary dark fantasy which wilfully ignores boundaries crossing over into surrealism magic-realism horror & steampunk In B Catling's twisting poetic narrative Bakelite robots lie broken
- their hard shells cracked by human desire
- & an inquisitive Cyclops waits for his keeper & guardian growing in all directions Beyond the colonial city of Essenwald lies the Vorrh the forest which sucks souls & wipes minds There a writer heads out on a giddy mission to experience otherness fallen angels observe humanity from afar & 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 victimss