Phil Rickman - The Man in the Moss

[andydecker]

Phil Rickman – The Man in the Moss (Pan 1994, 595 p.)

He's been dead for two millennia; his body almost perfectly preserved in black peat.

To archaeologists, the Man in the Moss is one of the most fascinating discoveries of the century. But in the isolated village of Bridelow, his removal from the bog is a sinister sign. Here, the Man has become a fatal obsession …

In the wild wet days and nights around Samhain, the Celtic Feast of the Dead, tragedy strikes again and again. Now the icy blue disk of the Beacon of the Moss flickers ominously … as the forces of light and darkness struggle for possession of the Man – and the soul of Bridelow …


It was a nice idea, but I don't know it if merited 600 pages. But after all the excitement of the discovery of Ötzi, the Iceman, in the alps, I guess someone had to write such a book.

[Swampirella]

I won't deny that it dragged for the last 50 pages or so, but on the whole I enjoyed it. It's at archive if anybody wants to give it a try.