ISBN: 1497634830 9781497634831

Category: Fiction / Horror

Page count: 320

<b>The World Fantasy Award winner by the author of the Hyperion Cantos and <i>Carrion Comfort</i>: An American finds himself encircled by horrors in Calcutta<i>.</i></b><br>  <br> Praised by Dean Koontz as “the best novel in the genre I can remember,” <i>Song of Kali</i> follows an American magazine editor who journeys to the brutally bleak, poverty-stricken Indian city in search of a manuscript by a mysterious poet—but instead is drawn into an encounter with the cult of Kali, goddess of death.<br>  <br> A chilling voyage into the squalor and violence of the human condition, this novel is considered by many to be the best work by the author of <i>The Terror</i>, who has been showered with accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Hugo Award.<br>