The Vorrh
- Author Brian Catling
- Narrator Alan Moore, Allan Corduner
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Run Time 17 hours and 19 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction, Science fiction.
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What to expect
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.
In the tradition of China Miéville, 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.
(P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton
Critics Review
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In Brian Catling’s phosphorescent masterpiece The Vorrh we have one of the most original and stunning works of fantasy that has ever been my privilege to read, a brilliant and sustained piece of invention which establishes a benchmark not just for imaginative writing but for the human imagination in itself. After investigating other worlds of fantasy, The Vorrh is like a first experience of the ocean. Read this book, and marvel.
Alan Moore -
Brian Catling is simply a genius. His writing is so extraordinary it hurts, it makes me realize how little imagination I have.
Terry Gilliam -
There are not many books that rearrange the molecules of your being, turning your eyes inside out. The Vorrh, this saturnine post-traumatic testament, is one of them. A work of genius.
Iain Sinclair -
I am glad to have the book as a companion on my own dark quest.
Tom Waits -
I really loved Brian Catling’s The Vorrh. It’s a hot storm of a novel bursting with art and history, sex and nature. A visionary fantasy epic that is incredibly fun to read. Wildly different, but no less remarkable
Max Porter -
The English language has given birth to some great works of unbounded vision and imagination, and here is another one… It’s a very sophisticated and subtle exploration of the decadent, primitive and the mythical. Many books are said to be like nothing else, and aren’t, but Brian Catling’s really is.
Phillip Pullman
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