Meat Sculptors
E-book, Czech
Meat Sculptors
Dark fantasy where disembowelled guts aren’t hard to come by and the ground is regularly soaked with blood
Dark clouds are gathering on the horizon as a stagecoach makes its way through the muddy landscape of Aisante. Inside, it carries an old manhunter, known by the well-deserved nickname Reaper, and his prisoner, the infamous outlaw Lambrecht – which is nothing compared to the company at the trading post where they plan to spend the night.
None of its inhabitants are there by chance, and those who seem the most innocent, are the least so of all. It looks like it’s going to be a pretty bad few hours, and not just because of the storm that’s stopping them from leaving. The place isn’t called the Devil’s Gullet just because the current station was once the seat of the Boisture family, who were cursed for consorting with infernal powers… What’s more, there’s a good chance that the travellers aren’t quite alone in it.
In short, none of them will forget this rendezvous in the middle of a hundred-year rain for a long time. At least, that is, if they live to see the morning, because nothing is more deadly than secrets.
Except perhaps threats that are not of this world.
Reviews:
A deviant butchery worthy of Tarantino. No fan of The Hateful Eight and the cult horror The Thing should miss this bloody fantasy.
- PEVNOST
Jakub Hoza
Born in 1978 in Benešov. Although he long thought a hat and a whip would suit him, he ended up studying Electronic Computer Systems and now works in the IT department of an unnamed health insurance company. He mainly writes “deviant” dark fantasy and “splatterpunk” action sci-fi. To date, he has published eight books (Theatre Macabre, Okovy osudu, Projít ohněm, Do pekla a zpět, Jako sama smrt, Spálená země, Sochaři masa, and Bez návratu) and occasionally contributes short stories to Pevnost magazine. For more than thirty years, Hoza has been engaged in the theoretical and practical study of close combat, especially with bladed weapons. Some of the walls in his Prague flat are so hung with steel that they look like a castle armoury. Besides this, he dedicates himself primarily to his family and writing. He occasionally enjoys re-reading something by his favourite authors: Sapkowski, Kulhánek, and Pratchett.
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