Nathaniel shrake (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In A Vantage of Darkness, reality is as fragile as memory and time is a labyrinth with no exit. In this non-linear cosmic horror novel, Mae Barrett, the young daughter of a Vermont family that travels west to homestead in the dark and secluded Coconino Forest of 1889, is unwittingly cursed by the Hopi god of death, Masau'u, to suffer an eternity of immortality. Mae comes to fumble with the consequences of what horrors immortality may come to entail, and is driven into the arms of dark occultism, leading to a century-long and grisly ritual that entails the summoning of demons, meditative ascension, and terrible sacrifice of both herself and others. Blurring the supernatural with the philosophical, A Vantage of Darkness is a meditation on time, fate, and self-abandonment; a novel that explores the horror of memory, the fear of eternity, and the question of whether our realities are real, or merely stories that we tell ourselves.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a mysterious rider arrives in the frontier town of Bastion, Wyoming bearing a church bell and the promise of divine blessings to come, the townspeople see providence where they should see warning. The stranger is quick to insist that God has chosen Bastion to be his chosen land, a message happily received by the community's desire for meaning against the swallowing plains that surround them.But does something more insidious than prophecy lurk behind the visitor's words The question lingers in the minds of the town's bartender, sheriff, and young deputy as storms both literal and allegorical fall upon them. Can they overcome a rising tide of illusion, misdirection, and mass-hysteria before the flames of conviction burn Bastion to ash Told in evocative yet focused prose, American Petrichor pulls inspiration from Germany's 1534 Munster Rebellion to remind us just how easily man's institutions-and the people that build them-can mistake malevolence for providence. It will appeal to readers of The Fisherman, Blood Meridian, and The Devil All the Time.…