Description From the preeminent author of At Fear’s Altar and The Benighted Path comes Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness. Richard Gavin’s long awaited 5th collection of preternatural tales. Bound within are thirteen nightmares exploring the Sinister Pastoral. The dominion prevailing at the intersection of mortal reckoning and the primoridum of daemonic Nature. As a meditation on the forces of predation and parasitism, monstrous fecundity and decay, and those hidden folk who occupy the spaces between the branches. Sylvan Dread evokes the primeval wood ― the place where all dreams and nightmares begin. In this isolate copse we witness the excavation of abominations long earthbound, the twilight of the rational, and the forgotten violence of the Dionysian Rite. Those who dwell unseen within the hedge, the grotesques emergent in the weave of tangled roots, the writhing form amid the shadows of the Willow boughs—all are keepers of a rustic and terrible wisdom predating the emergence of mankind. Lurching between disembodiment and wholly manifest flesh, the baleful forces of wasteland and rural barren have long been etched upon the human soul. Three Hands Press ✢ Limited edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1000 copies
