The Road To Hel Between Light and Shadow

Name: The Road To Hel: Between Light and Shadow
Author: Anders Vane

By Anders Vane

Two ordinary couriers. One impossible delivery route. Customer service meets Norse myth.

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About the Book

Kjell is new on the job, the night is cold, and the playlist is aggressively 80s. Sundar—Punjabi, precise, and armed with endless masala tea—insists professionalism solves most problems. Then the GPS starts laughing, the fog grows teeth, and a bone gate drags their van into Helheim.

What follows is a deadpan, myth-soaked delivery run: Garm at the gate (apparently a tea guy), Hel herself signing for “fresh body parts,” iron rats chewing the wiring, and Nidhögg demanding chocolate… and forcing them to endure the world’s worst dragon stand-up. By the time they reach Modgud at Gjallarbrú, Kjell’s worldview is in pieces—and Sundar is calmly drafting an HSE report for the Underworld.

A fast, funny, dark-fantasy road story about bureaucracy, bravery, and the absurd comfort of doing your job—even when the job is literally in the realm of the dead.

About the Author

Anders Vane

Anders Vane is a Norwegian literary author and a pioneering voice. His work explores the quiet shadows of the human soul, moving through moral gray zones, psychological depth, and ancient echoes that haunt the present.

Vane’s writing carries clear ties to Jon Fosse’s spare intensity, Cormac McCarthy’s stark gravity, Bataille’s confrontations with the forbidden, and Cioran’s razor-edged doubt. There’s also a David Lynch undertow where dream-logic, dread, and the uncanny slips in at the edges, and, beneath it all, a Tolkien sense of myth: not as comfort, but as deep time pressing against the now.

Shaped by Norse heritage, Anders Vane writes where certainty falters and language refuses easy answers. Leaving readers with questions that echo long after the last page.

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Book Details

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ASIN

B0DPHWD9RZ

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ISBN-13

9788292302057

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Published

2025-12-08

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Edition

Two complete editions in one volume: English text first, then the full original Norwegian text (separate sections; not interleaved).

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