The Black Hunger

by Pullen, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780316573054
• ISBN10: 0316573051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-10-08
• Publisher: Redhook

Summary

A spine-tingling, queer gothic horror debut where two men are drawn into an otherworldly spiral, and a journey that will only end when they reach the darkest part of the human soul.

John Sackville will soon be dead. Shadows writhe in the corners of his cell as he mourns the death of his secret lover and the gnawing hunger inside him grows impossible to ignore.

He must write his last testament before it is too late.

It is a story steeped in history and myth - a journey from stone circles in Scotland, to the barren wilderness of Ukraine where otherworldly creatures stalk the night, ending in the icy peaks of Tibet and Mongolia, where an ancient evil stirs.

Praise for The Black Hunger:
"A terrifying gothic journey to the place where the very cruellest, hungriest creatures hide in the snow, and wear our faces. This is a magisterial debut." - Michael Rowe, author of Wild Fell

Author Biography

Nicholas Pullen is the author of the upcoming gothic horror triptych, The Black Hunger, out on Orbit Books in Autumn 2024, as well as numerous short stories, one of which, ‘Famous Blue,’ placed third in the Toronto Star Short Story Contest in 2019. He is a graduate of Somerville College at Oxford University, where he received his BA in History, and holds an MA in history from McGill University. By day he negotiates treaties with Indigenous peoples at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and attempts to make reconciliation real. He knows the names, locations, depths, and stories of every shipwreck in Georgian Bay, and most of the rest of the Great Lakes for that matter. He lives in the Yukon with his partner and their dog.