I love it. It's so clever. It's true Gothic: twisty, unreliable, and full of forbidden joys . . . the story lives in the foggy, haunted space between real life and what could have acceptably been published in the time period. It feels like a brilliantly queer, brilliantly playful successor to The Terror -- I can't wait for Dorian's next book

Natasha Pulley, author of Sunday Times bestselling The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

The Arctic horror of my dreams - one of those books that turns out to be exactly what you didn't know you were waiting for. It's a fantastically atmospheric and genuinely brutal survival story that brilliantly captures the grime and glamour of 19th-century London and the gruelling beauty of the Arctic. It's a mystery box packed with unfolding revelations that make you want to flip back to the beginning and reread it all in a new light. It's an excoriating takedown of the arrogance and exploitation that shaped the history of Polar exploration. It's a truly haunting, chilling and original ghost story. And it's a book about terrible men who kiss and eat each other. It keeps you guessing all the way through, if by "guessing" you mean "reading late into the night gripped with terror." This is my new obsession.

Hester Steel, author of The Faceless Thing We Adore

A dark and haunting reflection on fear and love, and the lengths we can go in service to them both. A book that will press like pack ice on reader's hearts, a glittering frost that will stay with them long after they've closed its frozen pages

Sam K Horton, author of Gorse