Alex Grass

Dreck

"Black River Lantern is a deliciously sinister story, one steeped in all that rural Americana has to offer. It’s a tale of family and dark forces, fates and fortunes, a modern myth born at the crossroads of the old world and the new." -Seattle Book Review

Black River Lantern

20 years ago, Alan and his mother disappeared in a plane crash off the coast of Helsinki.

20 years later, a giant man with his whole body covered in tattoos appears amidst the rubble of an explosion at a Philadelphia oil refinery. Detective Jefferson O’Brady, a dissolute alcoholic with a photographic memory, is brought in to piece together the mystery behind this behemoth. The hulking man says that he’s Alan come back from the realm of the dead, and Alan’s genius billionaire Aunt Mimi agrees.

And the first thing the reappeared giant has to do? Return to Helsinki, Finland to find the means to craft Ukonvasara—the hammer of Ukko.

All the while, strange happenings are underway in Philly:

A resurrected serial killer. Hidden (oc)cult conspiracies. Bizarre murders that defy the laws of space and time. Aunt Mimi in a miraculous trance state that grants her unseen visions of prophecy and telekinetic powers.

Detective O’Brady may be the only person capable of getting to the bottom of it all, but he can’t rely on the force, and his allies are few and far between.

Something’s going down in the City of Brotherly Love.

Alex Grass

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