Gregor [Dark Fantasy Reincarnation]

Gregor dies at the beginning, but this is a reincarnation story, so you know it's not the end. For eight hundred years he persists — invisible, unheard, forgotten. His wife is gone. His child is gone. The world has moved on without him.He eventually stops thinking of himself as a man at all. Then, on a beach in France, a stranger offers him a way back. He takes it. He wakes into a world where the boundary between the living and the dead has broken. Soldiers hide from Death beneath the corpses of the fallen. Hunters track creatures wearing human faces. Spirits are harvested in cellars. Old things wake inside the earth, buried and trapped, released by the acts of man. The dead do not know they are dead, or that they were human once. A world of monsters and beings so strange there is no name for them.   What Book 1: Gregor is about: Gregor — and the world around him, and the damage it is doing to the living and the dead and the ones in between. but also: A thief and a warrior priest pretending not to see the dead.A ring of power. Not that kind.A huntress facing monsters that used to be human and still think they are.A train driver and a train full of terrified people.A mine foreman torn apart by dogs, feeding now on fear.A charcoal burner buried with his daughter's skull.A Frenchman who works out he is dead, and still living.A Russian boy who walks the line between the living and the dead.A German sergeant haunted by a dead Russian who only wants to talk.A secret society that has solved death — and that is the least of what it is doing.A robber stalked by a ghost and obsessed with an object he cannot put down.A Scythian woman dying and trying to find the meaning of life when death is not the end. This book tells the story of Gregor, and sets out the wider world of In the Shadow of Gorj. What to expect: – A slow burn dark fantasy that rewards patience– A cosmology that reveals itself slowly– Grief and death on the page — not gratuitous, not softened– Book 1 of In the Shadow of Gorj: Book 1 complete, Book 2 written, Book 3 written. Nobody is going on hiatus. What not to expect: – A system, stats, or blue boxes– Levelling. Gregor peaked in the twelfth century– Redemption Posting five days a week.