Note: If you would like to order the standard book, those preorders will open on Monday, August 29. This update is for the preorder bundle offer only.
Tenebrous Press’ next—and final—release of 2022, CROM CRUACH, a New Weird Horror novella-in-verse, is out 9/22! To celebrate, we’ve put together a special package that will only be available for two weeks: Monday August 15-Sunday August 28.
Package includes:
CROM CRUACH novella featuring exclusive "naked" cover art (no press markings, insignia, etc)
T-shirt featuring Jonathan LaMantia's stunning cover art (multiple color/size/style options available)
official CROM CRUACH digital soundtrack, a dark ambient album composed by author Valkyrie Loughcrewe and collaborators Blood and Dust (soundtrack to be delivered in both MP3 and FLAC formats). Sample 1 Sample 2
high quality vinyl 3"x4" sticker
Each preorder package will also include a unique, hand-drawn, hand-cut bookmark by cover artist LaMantia *while supplies last*.
CROM CRUACH limited-time bundles available here to order now!
About CROM CRUACH:
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.
Featuring interior illustrations by Echo Echo, plus additional supplementary material designed by Dewi Hargreaves, Matt Blairstone and Val Loughcrewe.
Praise for CROM CRUACH:
"Loughcrewe plunges their readers head first into a skillful mix of folkloric, speculative and human horror. CROM CRUACH left me breathless at every turn, afraid to turn the page, afraid not to. It's not hyperbole to say I finished this novella with my mouth hanging open, my heart alight with horror and my mind afire with possibility. An incredible read, not to be missed."
Laurel Hightower, author of Crossroads and Below
“Loughcrewe's CROM CRUACH startled me. We might need to invent a new genre for them, like Anarcho-Folk Splatter or Lyrical Black-Metal Horror. If you don't want to read a novella-length poem mixing ancient occult horror with modern communal politics that's efficiently and viscerally detailed in glorious lines like, ‘Lynda was missing her head, Cora, and she was singing,’ well then, I really don't know how to help you.”
Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands
RIYL:
The films of Lucio Fulci & Dario Argento
Occult/Supernatural
Alternate History
Folk Horror
Irish Mythology
LGBTQA+
About the Author:
Valkyrie Loughcrewe lives in a bog, and is currently 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!
Order the CROM CRUACH preorder bundle here; only available until 28 August.
