Incarnate -- Richard Thomas

<p><b>In a frozen tundra, a sin-eater fights for redemption and absolution as monstrous creatures ravage a community already struggling to survive.</b></p><p>Sebastian Pana is a sin-eater, a shaman-like figure who can absolve the dead of their transgressions before they move on to the afterlife. But when a tear in the fabric of reality allows hideous beasts to invade the small arctic town he calls home, Sebastian must wage battle with them the only way he knows how: by unleashing the power of sin itself.</p><p>Thus, the stage is set for an epic confrontation between the forces of good and evil, in which a mother monster strives to save the dying land around her--and a young Inuit boy, haunted by Sebastian's fate, risks everything to forge a new way forward for the desperate vestiges of humanity. As an obliterating darkness descends from the frozen mountains, this profoundly redemptive tale will build toward a climactic showdown in which nature and the supernatural collide with the eternal quest for healing and forgiveness.</p><p>From an author who has been compared to Lovecraft, Bradbury, and Gaiman, <i>Incarnate </i>is a masterpiece of contemporary arctic horror--a dark, unsettling story told in a maximalist voice inflected with powerful notes of hope and grace.</p><p>"Thomas excels at summoning nightmarish images, as vivid as they are stark. . . . The most terrifying aspects of the novel, however, stem from its strange, shifting structure, which never quite allows the read