Mothtown

Part of my Review Roundup on Before We Go Blog. A stunning masterpiece of speculative fiction, Mothtown refuses to be confined to any conventional label like fantasy, science fiction, or horror. This is a work of art, both lyrical and unsettling. It also tells an amazing story that crushed me to tear......more

This book felt less like reading, and more like playing a horror video game. This is a complement, it feels like an intentional choice that the prose is flat and propels itself forward from one event to the next. The game SOMA came to mind as I read. There is a sense of dislocated horror combined wi......more

“Melt everything down to a great white blank. Eat anything that oozes out. No one knows how it all goes in Mothtown, and no one ever comes back to tell us. So, all you can do is practice being nothing and then hope that when you get there, you disappear." Mothtown by Caroline Hardaker is a book which......more

Mothtown is a wonderfully strange, eerie, literary, beautifully written book about a man who doesn’t belong in this world. It’s a perfect followup to Hardaker’s first novel, Composite Creatures. There are so many things that I want to say about this book. I can’t say most of them because of spoilers.......more