Blacktail

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 LaRueBlacktail 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 MovieWickedly 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 CaretakerMesmerizing 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 SixA mad, feral fable – this is beautiful, brutal fantasy, red in tooth and claw. Funny, heartbreaking, violent. All hail Blacktail. Down with the two-legs – Chuck Wendig, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Staircase in the Woods and The Book of AccidentsA tale of lupine vengeance – at first – whose stakes escalate to degrees I never saw coming. Unexpected, blood-soaked and vividly told – qntm, author of There is No Antimemetics DivisionScott Hawkins’ BLACKTAIL can be described in so many ways. Strange, beautiful, surreal, brutal, fantastic, fantastical. It evokes Richard Adams at his most bloodthirsty, Tolkien at his most apocalyptic. But, above all, it’s simply transcendent. Transportive. A magnificent, bloody saga that will change the way you look at the world. – Nat Cassidy, bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and MaryBlacktail is a journey through a universe simultaneously surreal and familiar, a tale that will leave claw marks on your brain that won’t quickly fade. You simply won’t read another book like it – Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the EndBlacktail is a wild, wholly engrossing ride that puts you in the brain of a wolf hellbent on destroying all of us … Hawkins delivers a rich mythology laced with both humor and tragedy that will have you reconsidering your own place in the natural order – Max Doty, author of The House that Eats the Dead

Scott Hawkins is the author of The Library at Mount Char. He works as a Linux engineer focused on big data. He and his wife live in a woodsy area about an hour north of Atlanta. She keeps a nice garden. He’s in his tenth year of failing to remodel the basement. Blacktail is his second novel.

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