Puppet's Banquet

By Valkyrie Loughcrewe

"A chilling, thought-provoking journey into madness and the macabre. Not for the faint of heart, but its impact is undeniable."

Booklist

Married couple Celia and Martin are brutally attacked on their drive through the Irish countryside. The attack leaves Celia with a violent schism in her mind, seemingly existing in two places at once: one the "real" world, the other a howling maelstrom of abstract monstrosity.

Of her husband, there is no trace...until weeks later, when Martin is discovered in a hospital for rare and abnormal diseases, his body spliced together with that of an unknown woman.

And they are very pregnant.

PUPPET'S BANQUET is a "diseased Gothic"; a hallucinatory treatise on medical abuse; the systemic disease of colonialism and patriarchy; and the limits of human perception.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1959790315
• ISBN13: 9781959790310
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Tenebrous Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Weird and intriguing horror novella

This novella is so weird and I was very intrigued while reading it. It is about a married couple, Celia and Martin, and the attack on them while they are driving home. Celia ends up with a schism in her mind, and Martin's body is taken apart and then spliced with a woman's body and then impregnated. Themes in this novella include autonomy, abuse of power, and disability. This is my second time reading something by Valkyrie Loughcrewe and I am excited to read more.