Puppet's Banquet is a body horror novella, written by Valkyrie Loughcrewe, and published by Tenebrous Press. An incredible piece about body autonomy which delves and embraces the absolute weirdness to deliver an experience of a novella, playing with the reader and the perception of the story.

A novella where we have a small skeleton of a plot which is used to dive into madness and gruesome scenes: a married couple on a drive that are attacked, setting in motion the catastrophic events for both of them. Martin's body is torn apart and reassembled, putting in the mix parts of a woman's body, becoming pregnant; and Celia's mind is broken into two, one of them tenuously attached to the reality while the other is lost in chaos and madness in a different dimension. Both of our couple eventually get into a hospital for rare conditions, starting a weirder arc that engulfs the reader.

Puppet's Banquet doesn't hold the reader's hand, challenging them to keep their mind fully into the madness; unapologetically gory, shocking the reader through gruesome images, and making it a delight if you are for hard horror. Despite being a relatively short novella, there's so much contained in this little book.

With Puppet's Banquet we have another excellent example of what Tenebrous Press offers to the reader, challenging books that are absolutely outstanding, usually on the weird side. If you are a fan of extreme horror, impossible images and a great allegory on autonomy, give this book a try.