In a Black Tapestry (The Black Tapestry)

"Hill eschews the fantasy genre's bent for grandiose plots and fantastic quests, instead focusing his efforts on a harrowing journey of horror and survival, with a splintered approach to worldbuilding and a keen focus on character that keeps the whole affair exciting and fresh" - The Booklife Prize"You really have to follow close to catch all the details of the story. Nothing like I have ever read before andI have been reading for decades." - Amazon Reviewer"One of the best dark fantasy stories I have read in a long time! Keeps you at the edge of your seat the whole time!" - Goodreads ReviewerIn an old place of worship, there hangs a tapestry of dark portent.In its cloth are stitched the histories, the lineage of a town on the marches between the merchant burgs and the untamed pagan wilderness – stories of ogres and Wends, of strange creatures sewn in spidery black thread, and stunted men who hide beneath the ground; and the cursed blue-ringed eye, the ruin of all.But all that is legend and folly, is it not?When Aivars and his hex-anointed brothers of the Greysworn are called away to war against the pagans by their liege Luther the Bloodless, Zemyna finds herself left behind in their sleepy town. Heedless of the omens descried by the town’s rector and the tall tales woven into the tapestry, she is awakened one night by something straight out of nightmare and legend.Under a pale moon she flees from the terrors that seem to have come from the very stories threaded in the cloth to afflict the benighted townsfolk, and through one endless night she discovers the secrets of the town’s troubled past. All manner of horrors usher out from the shadows to weave their own tapestry of terror and survival.

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