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There's a great deal to admire in the works of B. Catling. Leaving aside his work as a sculptor and artist, his fiction has a distinctive character, a tremendously imaginative and original approach to dark fantasy, the writing evoking wondrous visuals. He is at his most expansive in The Vorrh trilogy, but equally creative in shorter works like Earwig . Hollow is another fabulous creation, creating a world so unsettling that it's not one you'd particularly want to revisit in a trilogy. It indeed starts out like a fable, one set in medieval times, where Follett and his group of mercenaries and knights of seemingly Dutch or Flemish origin have been tasked by the High Church with delivering a new oracle to the monastery of the Eastern Gate, Das Kagel, formerly known as the Tower of Babel. The nature of the Blessed Oracle is a little obscure but also somewhat disturbing. A creature of withered limbs, it feeds on the marrow of human bones treated fresh by the whispered sins of ...