Leech - Hiron Ennes - 2022







By: Hiron Ennes

Narrated by: Abigail Thorn

Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 09-27-22

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Horror, Gothic, Post-Apocalyptic

Language: English

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Format: mp3 64/48 stereo







A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.



“A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!”—Tamsyn Muir



MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE



In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies.



For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed.



In the frozen north, the Institute's body will discover a competitor for its rung at the top of the evolutionary ladder. A parasite is spreading through the baron's castle, already a dark pit of secrets, lies, violence, and fear. The two will make war on the battlefield of the body. Whichever wins, humanity will lose again.



A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.



©2022 Hiron Ennes (P)2022 Macmillan Audio



Critic Reviews



“Leech uses language with startling acrobatism, creating a world steeped with more secrets than the human body can contain.”—Cassandra Khaw



“Worldbuilding both subtle and surprising. Killer prose. Grotesque biology like I’ve never seen. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if David Cronenberg and Edgar Allen Poe bumped into each other at the same parasitological conference, here's your answer.”—Peter Watts



“[A] fascinating jigsaw puzzle... [that] only gets more intriguing as the novel goes on... Fans of gothic horror will devour it.”—Booklist, starred review











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