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Crom cruach / Valkyrie Loughcrewe ; featuring illustrations by Echo Echo.

ISBN: 9781737982326
ISBN: 1737982323
Physical Description: 168 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Publisher: [Portland, OR] : Tenebrous Press, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2022

Loughcrewe, Valkyrie, (author.). Echo Echo, (illustrator.).

Summary:

A family is found slaughtered in their home, yet their corpses still move; committed to the routine of their daily lives, heedless of their own grisly deaths. A local occultist commune is suspected of the crime. The bloody legacy of Catholicism and the dark roots of ancient paganism intertwine in the aftermath of a recent national revolution. Welcome to the Ireland of tomorrow. Two ex-Gardai officers, a former Franciscan monk and a young trans woman race to determine the cause of the slayings before tensions in the community boil over and kick off a new Satanic Panic, driving the tenuous fledgling nation back into the arms of the Church. Crom Cruach is a distinctly Irish anxiety piece about the reluctant future and repressed past of a country trying to shrug off the shackles of colonialism, wrapped in the shiny black leather of Giallo and written in a poetic style fit for the fog-shrouded mysticism of the emerald isle.