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    A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
    A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
    A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
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    A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

    Written by John Hornor Jacobs

    Narrated by Almarie Guerra and MacLeod Andrews

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    The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—both never-before-published in print or audio—that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition.

    Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.

    A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself.

    In My Heart Struck Sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the Deep South—which may be the musical stylings of the Devil himself.

    Breathtaking and haunting, A Lush and Seething Hell is a terrifying and exhilarating journey into the darkness, an odyssey into the deepest reaches of ourselves that compels us to confront secrets best left hidden.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 8, 2019
    ISBN9780062959072
    Author

    John Hornor Jacobs

    John Hornor Jacobs' first novel, Southern Gods, was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel. His young adult series, The Incarcerado Trilogy comprised of The Twelve-Fingered Boy, The Shibboleth, and The Conformity, was described by Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing as "amazing" and received a starred Booklist review. His Fisk & Shoe fantasy series composed of The Incorruptibles, Foreign Devils, and Infernal Machines has thrice been shortlisted for the David Gemmell Award and was described by Patrick Rothfuss like so: "One part ancient Rome, two parts wild west, one part Faust. A pinch of Tolkien, of Lovecraft, of Dante. This is strange alchemy, a recipe I’ve never seen before. I wish more books were as fresh and brave as this." His fiction has appeared in Playboy Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Apex Magazine. Follow him on Twitter at @johnhornor.

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    • 5/5
      This book is a magic act. Its two novellas, one set in Spain and South America, the other in Appalachia and the Deep South, are written with the detail place and character, the stylistic care, of literary fiction—yet the cosmic horror is not smothered by high-brow pretentious but made deeper, richer by the full humanity and the complexity of story. Highly recommended to anyone who likes careful vivid literature or still yet well-earned Lovecfaftan eeriness. Fans of Victor LaValle will not be disappointed. Finally, the two readers are pitch perfect for the material

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    • 4/5
      So it’s good. Both stories. But.. the second was somewhat unsatisfying.. the end was just ..
      Meh. And I don’t really think these are cosmic horror except in the very loosest definition, more psychological horror. Or even just psychological angst. But I had to listen to them. Had to keep going so there’s that. Unsettling and depressing but I couldn’t stop listening.
    • 3/5
      Hard to rate this because the sea dreams it is the sky is so poor (had an interesting idea but is poor, too drawn out and makes stuff that should be horrifying or thrilling boring) and the other story is so good (well paced, not predictable even if the ending is a bit anti climactic)
    • 3/5
      Good stories! Way way way too drawn out! I listen to 30 books a month as a painter and this book was interesting enough to keep me coming back but I had to break and listen to other books as I would get so bored waiting for something to finally happen that I would forget what was going on!
    • 5/5
      The best book I've read in years. Two wholly unique and intriguing tales of cosmic horror.
    • 4/5
      John Horner Jacobs is a hell of a find. Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      I think there was some emphasis on things I don't believe added all that much to the stories, such as lenghty pieces of thought that only repeated themselves. But the plot of both stories was nice.
    • 3/5
      Good stories but the writer is to woke as they say and way to political. Which feels as if was added later as an afterthought because it had no place and did not fit, story could be told without it and it would not have affected the flow, or the outcome.
    • 5/5
      Showing that there is plenty of mileage to be had from Lovecraftian cosmic horror, stripped of its period racism and insularity. Two disturbing novellas, in marvellously fertile settings: a lightly-anonymised version of post-coup Chile, and the Library of Congresse's folk music project in the '30s and today. Both felt just a little over-researched, with the sources or advisors showing – something Lovecraft was guilty of too. But great stuff.
    • 4/5
      A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horrorby John Honor Jacob'sdue 10-8-2019Harper Voyage 4.0 /5.0#netgalley #ALushAndSeethingHellThis pair is chilling tales have never been published. They explore the darker side of human nature. Exceptionally well written, this is top-notch haunting horror.'The Sea Dreams It Is The Sky'A once famous poet, Avedano, and his young student Isobel Certa, both exiles from the dictatorship of Magera, South America, are living in Spain. Isobel finds a journal kept by Avedano whose entries are so disturbing she begins to spiral into a world of corruption.'My Heart Struck Sorrow'A librarian discovers journals and acetate recordings of a man who recorded blues music in the Deep South, and begins to go mad as he uncovers the origins and roots of a popular blues song.Thanks to netgalley for sending this e-book ARC for review.