Rhiannon
Fantastic, as always. I’ve read the original version from Page’s excellent collection Orphans of the Atercosm: A Collection but was excited to see him re-release this just prior to the forthcoming The Swallowed Town (which I’ve also been lucky to read an early version of) as a kind of lead-in/taster/related story.
This short novella feels at times like you’re reading a classic lyrical ballad or epic – literary horror for the cerebral crowd. It’s ostensibly a very noir detective noir, replete with cosmic rituals and abyssal entities couched in erudite prose. All masterfully done in a spare 90-something pages.
I read it. And then I immediately read it again.
“…I have neither the brain nor the words nor the eyesight…”
Oh, but Page has those words… unequivocally, unmistakably, abyssally, and in abundance…
Originally posted at www.instagram.com.
Fantastic, as always. I’ve read the original version from Page’s excellent collection Orphans of the Atercosm: A Collection but was excited to see him re-release this just prior to the forthcoming The Swallowed Town (which I’ve also been lucky to read an early version of) as a kind of lead-in/taster/related story.
This short novella feels at times like you’re reading a classic lyrical ballad or epic – literary horror for the cerebral crowd. It’s ostensibly a very noir detective noir, replete with cosmic rituals and abyssal entities couched in erudite prose. All masterfully done in a spare 90-something pages.
I read it. And then I immediately read it again.
“…I have neither the brain nor the words nor the eyesight…”
Oh, but Page has those words… unequivocally, unmistakably, abyssally, and in abundance…
Originally posted at www.instagram.com.