A Lush and Seething Hell
A Lush and Seething HellJohn Hornor Jacobs

A Lush and Seething Hell (2019)

John Hornor Jacobs

Creators: Loved

[The author] 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,-- Adapted from dust jacket.

ISBN:
9780062880826
Length:
376 pages

Genres: fantasy , horror , thriller

Lists: …

Reviews1

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Loved

i have so many honorable mentions for books that i really enjoyed this year okay so the first honorable mention has got to be jar of hearts by jennifer hillier also things have gotten worse since we last spoke and then i have the x talk the book of accidents local woman missing the drowning kind by jennifer mcmahon black girls must die exhausted when the reckoning comes a lots away

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