A review by kellydienes
A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs

4.0

this book consists of two novellas: “the sea dreams it is the sky” and “my heart struck sorrow”. both are stories i had never heard before, they are not predictable and felt totally unfamiliar. i liked that a lot. this author is really good at creating atmospheres that are so unsettling and you’re not sure why

i think i preferred “my heart struck sorrow”; that one is about a guy who recently lost his wife and son, and he works for the library of congress digitizing and indexing recordings of old folk music. he comes across a strange, hidden collection of old folk music recordings with a journal accompanying it, and... it’s bizarre and incredibly engrossing and creepy af and there’s some crazy devil shit involved. i obvz won’t give away the ending but it was kinda perfect and sad, and again, not predictable