Calcutta is a city of shadows, poverty, beauty, and violence intertwine in its labyrinth of streets. For American magazine editor Robert Luczak, it is supposed to be a simple assignment: track down a long-lost manuscript from a mysterious Indian poet. But the deeper he searches, the more he senses something malignant pulsing beneath the city’s surface.
Whispers of a cult devoted to Kali, goddess of death, become impossible to ignore. Drawn into a world of ritual and terror, Robert finds himself ensnared in a nightmare that reaches beyond myth into brutal reality.
Dan Simmons’s Song of Kali, winner of the World Fantasy Award, is a chilling descent into obsession, violence, and the darkest corners of the human soul, an unflinching classic of modern horror.
