Eldritch terrors, cosmic gods, and dark magic stalk the darkly atmospheric and dreadful pages of this collection of nine short horror stories and novelettes.From archaeologists, lured to their doom by an unknown, deceptive terror in 'Their Eyes were Dust,' to a desperate man seeking the affirmations of his unfathomable Patron as his life collapses around him in 'His Castle Crumbles:' every story in The Roots Grow into the Earth explores a different part of a surreal world where unf...

Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely. In the modern world system there appears to be no firm, unchallenged ground on which to construct a meaningful canopy. But around the world, many individuals and groups long for a kind of cultural coherence that they believe once existed. They search for fundamentals. While these may be sought in religious traditions, many also aspire to new secular certainties. In their various new forms and contexts the c...