Puppet's Banquet

By Valkyrie Loughcrewe

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.