I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky (PAPERBACK), by Brian Hodge

I'll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky
by Brian Hodge

Featuring COLOR cover and interior artwork by Kim Parkhurst

About the Book:
When Nona Conklin brings him a painting by the great-grandfather she never knew, gallery owner Timothy Randolph knows he's found the project of a lifetime: curating a spectacular cache of folk art hidden for decades in the mountains of her home.

"God never made a lazier man than Cecil Conklin. Never put a more slothful soul in a fella big enough to wrestle an ox to the ground."

The Conklin Collection is haunted and haunting, powerful in its brutal simplicity. What looks like the work of a fevered imagination begins to appear more and more like the desperate attempts of a man toiling at the edge of his limits to depict what cannot be depicted…

An underlying order as old as the hills, its thousand throats concealed beneath the roots and rocks, between the streams and trees, deep in the besieged mountains of Appalachia.

"My momma said it was their eighteenth summer when Cecil started shooting up like a weed again. That ain't normal."

But the most crucial painting of all is missing. And the only place it could be is the last place that should be searched.

"The rest, I think they always knew deep down Cecil was the one in trouble, that something was after him already. He never should've gone over the mountain."

I'll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky is a tale of art and obsession, of a dying heritage and cosmic horror, brought to rustic life with full-color paintings by artist Kim Parkhurst.

About the Author:

Brian Hodge is one of those people who gets cranky unless he’s making stuff. To date, he’s made twenty novels and story collections, around 135 shorter works, reams of nonfiction, and a soundtrack album. Currently in the works are a new novel, a couple albums’ worth of music, and consultancy and screenplay work for a South American filmmaker. He lives snugged up against the Colorado Rockies, where he climbs the occasional 14er, so far without falling. Connect through his web site (www.brianhodge.net), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/brianhodgewriter).

Praise for Hodge:

“A writer of spectacularly unflinching gifts.” 

— Peter Straub

“Brian Hodge is clearly a master craftsman of a writer. His sense of character, setting, and concept is pitch perfect.” 

— This Is Horror UK

“Each book of his stands out as so original, that I’d have a difficult time in saying which was my personal favorite ... It’s his writing style, combined with his incredible imagination, which makes his books so consistently good.” 

— Horror After Dark

“Not only does Brian Hodge get the ‘Cosmic Awe’ concept nailed down, but his characters, and the way he describes the relationships between them, are expertly drawn to a degree that Lovecraft himself could never have achieved.” 

— The British Fantasy Society

“A fine display of Hodge’s skills as a writer, particularly his ability to combine the cosmic and the personal, the sublime and the intimate ... suggest[s] one reason for Hodge’s success, namely, that the mirror in which the galaxy swirls is a human eye.” 

— Locus