Synopsis
‘Outstanding’ – Daily Mail
‘Glorious’ – V. E. Schwab
‘Blacktail will consume you’ – Marcus Kliewer
A dark, brutal work of supernatural horror and animal revenge from Scott Hawkins, the critically acclaimed author of The Library at Mount Char.
Blacktail is a half-breed wolf, born to hunt. When he finds love beyond a garden wall, he dares to imagine a peaceful life – until men butcher his mate and unborn pups in a surgical act of cruelty.
His grief ignites a rampage of torn throats and shattered bone, a slaughter so absolute it draws the gaze of an ancient feline witch. She sends him south to wake the sleeping Forest God and end the age of reason. Fuelled by a rage that frightens Hell itself, Blacktail wages war . . .
From a gore-soaked wilderness to a burning confrontation with Heaven, Blacktail is a feral odyssey of vengeance.
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‘Unexpected, blood-soaked and vividly told’
– qntm, author of There is No Antimemetics Division
‘Touching, horrifying’
– Mark Lawrence, bestselling author of The Book That Wouldn't Burn
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“Reader, be warned. This is not a gentle book, and those who cannot bear to see an animal hurt should guard their hearts. But persist, and you will be rewarded. Blacktail is as glorious as it is gruesome”V. E. Schwab, Sunday Times bestselling author of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Blacktail is a serious, wild, trippy, and gory flight of imagination . . . No one is spared the fang”Paul Tremblay, Bram Stoker Award winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Horror Movie
“Wickedly sharp, unflinchingly brutal, and nothing short of a modern masterpiece. Blacktail will consume you”Marcus Kliewer, bestselling author of We Used to Live Here and The Caretaker
“Mesmerizing and strange, like the headiest of folklore. Blacktail is one to savour; one to delight in the eccentricities of; one to sit with long after it ends”Olivie Blake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl Dinner and The Atlas Six
