The Vorrh

"Brian Catling’s mysterious, fictional domain, The Vorrh — like the book of the same name in which it takes place — is a vast, uncharted forest somewhere in Africa. Inspired by the surrealist writer Raymond Roussel as well as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, The Vorrh is not only a work of alternative history but of alternative literature, a sprawling, omnivorous novel that gobbles up history, geography, mythology and fantasy, then delicately chews it to a rarefied pulp."