num_pages: 368
description: The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling talesboth never-before-published in printthat 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 Bolao 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 Southwhich 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.
language: English
title: A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
publisher: Harper Voyager