The Vorrh

Resumen del libro

'In The Vorrh we have one of the most original and stunning works of fantasy that has ever been my privilege to read.' Alan Moore 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. 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.

Biografía del autor

Brian Catling (Londres, 1948) es escultor, pintor y artista escénico. Sus obras, tan personales como transgresoras, han sido expuestas en prestigiosos museos y galerías de varios países. Como escritor ha publicado seis libros de poemas y sus trabajos figuran en numerosas antologías. Desde el mismo momento de su aparición en 2012, Vorrh ;primera entrega de la trilogía dedicada al bosque infinito; fue saludada por figuras como Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock o Philip Pullman como una indiscutible y original obra maestra de la literatura fantástica.