Road of Bones

This is a fast moving and effective horror novel, with a strong sense of place and the hostility of the landscape - in fact, it's tempting to get pseudy and read all the supernatural horror as metaphor, a reification of just how inimical this place is to life. But then again, it's also pretty fun to think about unstoppable horned shamans in endless pursuit of our heroes and animistic spirits messing people up in inventively gory style. I guess you can indeed have it both ways, and this one was a very entertaining slice of pagan horror in a fresh and undressed setting. Nice one.