{"product_id":"puppets-banquet-paperback","title":"Puppet's Banquet - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eValkyrie Loughcrewe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A chilling, thought-provoking journey into madness and the macabre. Not for the faint of heart, but its impact is undeniable.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarried 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they are very pregnant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePUPPET'S BANQUET \u003c\/strong\u003eis a \"diseased Gothic\"; a hallucinatory treatise on medical abuse; the systemic disease of colonialism and patriarchy; and the limits of human perception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eValkyrie Loughcrewe lives in a bog in Ireland, and is currently at this moment working on something gory and crawling with nightmare creatures. Whatever you do, don't look them up on twitter-- in fact, don't look anyone up on twitter. Start raising homing pigeons! Val also makes diabolical industrial electro music under the name Surgeryhead and gnarly death thrash metal as Argento!\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53596154560819,"sku":"9781959790310","price":15.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/puppets-banquet-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}