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.

Cover art by Donna A. Black.
Interior illustrations by Trevor Henderson.

"Loughcrewe has found fresh narrative fissures within our flesh, penning their own Cronenberian poetry with every burst capillary. An absolute blissful injury upon the reader's psyche. The contusions it creates may never heal." -Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes