As the effects of drought and a blistering summer weigh on the City of Yartha, a wealthy young scholar abandons his life of privilege to become a fanatical disciple of Hyne, the Earth God. The scholar claims that he can summon rain through the power of his bizarre rituals. To Syatt and Pox, lowborn youths and petty criminals from the streets of Tabby Square, it sounded like a spectacle worth seeing, but what they would find there would change their lives, and the city, forever.

Cult of the Hair Eater is a dark fantasy novella, and the first act of a longer tale.