The World Below

<p><span style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>A brilliant and flayed slice of Midwest gothic. While one might find traces of Poppy Z. Brite or Michael McDowell here </span><em style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>The World Below</em><span style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)> is wholly its own beast. Peak laces the classic premise of feuding cursed families with high-potency LSD forming something fresh potent and filled with ache.</span><strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>B.R. Yeager author of <em>Negative Space</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>Violent noir-soaked horror infuses every page of David Peak's astonishing </span><em style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>The World Below</em><span style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)> coiling like a serpent around love: first and lost loves love of family and the land love of darkness and blood. Peak mixes the most primal of emotions like an alchemist leaving every reader transformed.</span><strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>Livia Llewellyn author of <em>Furnace</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>The World Below </em><span style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>is an incredible page turner of a novel. The fascinating well-rendered characters all members of two long-feuding families clash with pyrotechnic psychedelic and dynamic results. </span><em style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>The World Below</em><span style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)> puts in mind an unholy but glorious union of William Faulkner's </span><em style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>Light in August</em><span style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)> and Grant Morrison's </span><em style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>The Invisibles</em><span style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>. Peak's prose is wise mysterious and philosophically deep but is always riveting. My highest recommendation. Don't miss this one!</span><strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong style=color: rgba(1 1 1 1)>Jon Padgett author of <em>The Secret of Ventriloquism</em></strong></p>