BLOOD MOUNTAIN
“...a bloody mosaic novel that brings together smart writing and pure horror with beautiful prose and important topics. At once a powerful chant about Earth and womanhood, a shapeshifting narrative packed with blood that centers Otherness, and a strange literary creature that slides into your flesh...”
—Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs, and the critically acclaimed award-winning The Devil Takes You Home
Cover Art by:Daniele Serra • www.multigrade.it
Praise For Blood Mountain
“Along the face of Tolian’s mountain: real horrors exist beside sudden, lavish declarations. Angsts and awes, polished and raw. A mosaic of mountain songs that penetrate all the way to the beating, blood heart. A tremendous knotting of setting, mood, and mind.”
—Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Goblin
“Brenda Sue Tolian never flinches at staring into the abyss and reporting precisely what she finds in the darkness. Her stark, provocative prose sticks in your memory like a fish hook into your eye.”
—Stanley Wiater, host of Dark Dreamers
“A blood-beating, ancient survival song from Tolian and one hell of a first novel. Blood Mountain unearths the voices long buried, many of whom should have stayed put in their graves. Still, Tolian doesn’t allow for pardons in this brutal landscape with characters carrying the burdens of beauty and grief, heartbreak and sins. Tolian never falters when the dead demand to be heard and the living is forced to reckon with the land and the mountain--just as alive as the people that claim her--watching, waiting.”
—Hillary Leftwich-Author of- Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock and Aura.
