Oh, this is a crazy fun read featuring a dual time-line story of two Rachels.

In 2009, Rachel Galloway likes to draw magic pigs and she doesn't really want to do write her high school history report. So, she figures she'll turn her doodles into a history "project". The only problem is...well..Renfield County is a bad place to dream up a religion where pigs eat good flesh and scary bats tear into bad flesh and expect that someone (or something) won't make your sketches into a reality.

In 2019, Rachel Durwood is in the Renfield Guard and she's investigating a colleague's disappearance in Burnskidde, a town that's been cut off from the rest of the county for the last 10 years. A town taken over by a cult that worships magic flesh-eating pigs and where monstrous bats tear unbelievers apart.

It was such a treat to read the ARC. Thanks so much to the publisher and NetGalley!

I was really hoping this book would clear up some of the more confusing aspects of Edenvale but it didn't. I am just as confused and frustrated as before.

Sam Rebelein is writing some of the most creative and exciting books around right now and Galloway’s Gospel is his best yet. There is so much going on in this book. On the surface it’s an awesome cosmic horror novel with two of the best FMCs in a long time. But it has so much to say about the culture of disinformation, the way people exploit hopes and beliefs of others, and it’s honestly just fantastic. The final images of this one are absolutely seared into my brain and I can’t wait to see what’s going to come out of Renfield County next!

Have faith in the fog and don't mind the poo pigs and gluttonbats because the Fogmonger is coming to make everything better! If you have no idea what I'm talking about, that's okay. You'll understand it all clearly after reading this epic, weird, terrifying, and often darkly funny novel.

Blend some small town horror, add some cosmic entities, sprinkle in a dash of folk horror mixed with religious extremism, and a pinch of humor and what comes out is this!

The small county of Renfield is a strange place. Weird things happen all the time but the citizens are used to it all. Just another day. But in 2009, a high school girl, Rachel Galloway, starts imagining a village where people work together for the common good by worshipping the beasts of supernatural origins, sacrificing flesh and body parts for a bounty of life giving gifts,.

She draws the village, the beasts, and the Fogmonger. But things start getting out of control when several of her classmates believe she's had a vision. They start to consider her words as gospel and soon, the town is all pulled into this religion. And it becomes reality!

But it's not the happy ever after they imagined. The price for belief is going to get bloody and brutal.

In 2019, an agent is going to find the town fully living this religion. And once she starts uncovering secrets, it's not going to end well.

This is one fantastic novel. The whole thing feels like a fairy tale fever dream wrapped in a bloody cloak of cosmic horror. It's hard to put down because the pacing is excellent and things are going on and being discovered throughout. You'll want to read until your eyes fall out to get to all the weird deep secrets going on.

No doubt that this will make top horror books of the year lists. I highly recommend it.