We Will All Go Down Together by Gemma Files
One of my favorite Canadian authors Gemma Files author of the greathorror western Hexslinger series a few years back has a modern horror offering for readers. This time around here dark imaginings take us to modern day Ontario involving secret sects of witches changelings and such that are the nightmares of many urban fantasy tales. I expect lots of dark and grim events interspersed with equally dark humor and insight. Here is the synopsis. As always I'm exited when ChiZine has a new offering... Here is a link to their website...
In the woods outside Overdeere, Ontario, there are trees that speak, a village that doesn’t appear on any map and a hill that opens wide, entrapping unwary travellers. Music drifts up from deep underground, while dreams—and nightmares—take on solid shape, flitting through the darkness. It’s a place most people usually know better than to go, at least locally—until tonight, at least, when five bloodlines mired in ancient strife will finally converge once more.
Devize, Glouwer, Rusk, Druir, Roke—these are the clans who make up the notorious Five-Family Coven. Four hundred years ago, this alliance of witches, changelings, and sorcerers sought to ruin and recreate the Earth in their own image, thwarted at the last only by treachery that sent half of them to be burned alive. Driven apart by rage and hatred, their descendants have continued to feud, intermarry, and breed with each other throughout the centuries, their mutual dislike becoming ever more destructively intimate.
But now, from downtown Toronto to the wilds beyond, where reality’s walls grow thin, dark forces are drawing the Coven’s last heirs to a final confrontation. Psychics, ex-possessees, defrocked changeling priests, shamans for hire, body-stealing witches, and monster-slaying nuns—the bastard children of a thousand evil angels—all are haunted by a ghost beyond any one person’s power to exorcize unless they agree to stand together once more, at least long enough to wreak vengeance upon themselves.
The Godless by Ben Peek
Between City of Stairs , the new book by Robert Jackson Bennett, which involves a world where the gods have been killed and this novel where the gods are dead or dying I think fantasy novels are treading some interesting metaphysical ground. It doesn't hurt that Jeff Vandermeer has blurbed this even if its an odd one in attracting my attention and the fact that tor.com posted sample chapters to view here doesn't hurt either. Here is a bit of synopsis...
The Gods are dying. Fifteen thousand years after the end of their war, their bodies can still be found across the world. They kneel in forests, lie beneath mountains, and rest at the bottom of the world’s ocean. For thousands of years, men and women have awoken with strange powers that are derived from their bodies.
The city Mireea is built against a huge stone wall that stretches across a vast mountain range, following the massive fallen body of the god, Ger. Ayae, a young cartographer’s apprentice, is attacked and discovers she cannot be harmed by fire. Her new power makes her a target for an army that is marching on Mireea. With the help of Zaifyr, a strange man adorned with charms, she is taught the awful history of ‘cursed’ men and women, coming to grips with her new powers and the enemies they make. Meanwhile, the saboteur Bueralan infiltrates the army that is approaching her home to learn its terrible secret...
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