HIEROGLYPHS OF BLOOD AND BONE

From visionary new voice in weird fiction Michael Griffin comes Hieroglyphs of Blood and Bone When Guy39s marriage of two decades unravels he39s driven from his previously stable domestic life and ends up renting a room in the houseboat of his much younger coworker Karl Pushed outside his comfort zone Guy tries to follow Karl39s example until he ends up exploring entirely new frontiers both natural and uncanny He finally encounters the enigmatic Lily who offers to share with Guy her own arcane language a mix of incomprehensible symbols rough bits of nature and dark pleasures of the flesh Guy finds himself obsessed as if powerless under Lily39s spell Will he recognize in time the many secrets she keeps hidden in plain sight or will allow himself to be pulled downstream toward an inescapable vortex