![]() ![]() The elements that really stand out in this novella are the imagery and the characterizations. Can they carry out their plan successfully, or will unkind fate thwart their efforts? They are followed by carrion angels and the Black Law, attempting to prevent their passage. They rendezvous with another ship to pick up Alice, her father, and the intended Feast, then successfully enter the waters that will take them to Hell. The two arrive safely in Tortuga, where they ship out for Hell with the black pirate Captain Beverly Toussaint and his first mate Hu Chaoxiang on the ship Butcher’s Table. ![]() The young Dunwood poisons other members of the Candlelight Society to make sure he is chosen to attend the Feast and hires a thug called Fat Gully as a bodyguard. The two of them plan to use the next Feast to get married on the shores of Hell and then enter the realm of the great Satan, where they envision spending their married life in conjugal bliss. Martin Dunwood, a member of the Satanist Candlelight Society, has fallen in love with Alice Cobb, daughter of the Priest of the cannibalistic Buried Church. This review contains spoilers, and probably needs a trigger warning. Although he doesn’t seem to have a huge output in novels, Ballingrud does seem to be well established and has one work made into a major motion picture. It was published by Saga Press in the author’s collection Wounds in April 2019. ![]() This novella is occult/dark fantasy/horror and a finalist for the 2020 World Fantasy Award. ![]()
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