The Wanderer

After obscure author of strange stories, SimonPeterkin, vanishes in bizarre circumstances, a typescript, of a textentitled, The Wanderer, is found in his flat.The Wanderer is a weird document. On a dying Earth, in the far-flung future, a man,an immortal, types the tale of his aeon-long life as prey, as a huntedman; he tells of his quitting the Himalayas, his sanctuary for thousands of years, to return to his birthplace, London, to write the memoirs;and writes, also, of the night he learned he was cursed with lifewithout cease, an evening in a pub in that city, early in thetwenty-first century, a gathering to tell of eldritch experiencesundergone.Is The Wanderer a fiction, perhaps Peterkin's last novel, or something far stranger? Perhaps more account than story?A fiendishly wrought labyrinth of tales within tales, opening out fromthe most intimate horrors into aeons of desolation, wonderfully writtenand devilishly compelling.-Hal Duncan, author of Vellum and InkAchieves an uncanny and unsettling quality, trailing itself spookily across the tender membrane of the reader's imagination.-Adam Roberts, author of Bête and Jack GlassEasily one of the best modern horror novels I have read in many, many years.Imagine M.P. Shiel and William Hope Hodgson channeled through MarkSamuels, with frequent scenes of quite nightmarish ghastly horror andcruelty that read like Reggie Oliver doing a novelisation of Cannibal Holocaust. Witty, clever, and utterly, deliciously horrific. I can't begin todescribe how impressed I was with this, and how much I enjoyed it. Justmarvellous.-John Llewellyn Probert, author of The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine and The House that Death BuiltThe Wanderer is a grimoire, filled with stories about stories, stories withinstories, legends, folktales, histories and foretellings. It's a bookyou'll stay up all night reading - both to find out what happens next,and to forfend the nightmares it will surely inspire.-Neil D.A. Stewart, author of The Glasgow Coma ScaleA little like wandering through a library assembled by some insane devotee of fantastic atrocities and excesses.-Robert Maslen, editor of Mervyn Peake: Collected Poems

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Timothy J. Jarvis is a writer and scholar with an interest in the antic, the weird. He currently lives in London.

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