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.

Valkyrie 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!