Bloodless We Go Buried

A literary horror novel that bends Shakespeare's Hamlet into a hell of Irish Mythology, tracing themes of grief, identity, and power in a post-apocalyptic theatre where a crippled father and a little red fox fights monsters at the end of the world...

"A lyrically sharp ... and horrifying exploration of identity and grief...part horror, part mythology, and wholly original." - Independent Book Review (STARRED Review)

"A summons from the deep past, a long walk through the dark woods where every shadow seems to breathe, a bold and emotional, raw and intimate novel, like I had stumbled into a hidden doorway." - Literary Titan

The story follows Lu, a crippled father struggling to keep his dying son safe in the aftermath of the Cataclysm, an apocalyptic event that ended with humanity living in the Dome under the reign of Salience, a unknown power set on keeping the people distracted, separated, and too busy to fight back, to think. Lu moves by dragging himself around the hallways of their home and fields of flowers that line their home under the dying shade of what they call the Star Oak, lost in the grief of a world without memory. When a strange creature visits him in the night and Salience comes for his son, Lu is left to reckon with finding something to live for...

The acclaimed author of the "mastery of mythology" (Independent Book Review) and the Fantasy Book of the Year (Independent Press) The Plain of Pillars returns with a literary horror novel that is a provoking and lyrically-abstract meditation on grief and hope and the monstrous tides of love. Griffith summons from the deep past and the portended future a bold and evocative story with stunning prose and deep emotional rigor. A blend of the weird, the blunt, and the tender, Bloodless We Go Buried offers, with uncanny and chilling clarity, the precise portrait of the Cauldron of our rebirth, asking what does it mean to be reborn when the world is already burning?

Ffrith is a markâko and remembering seanchaí, a participant citizen of Earth Mother, and a father, horse-friend, sacred butcher and leather tanner, and award-winning indie author of many books on kincentric ecology, mythology, fantasy, horror, and language. Ffrith's books have received numerous honors, including Independent Publisher's Fantasy Book of the Year, the Nautilus Best Small Press Books of the Year, and Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award in Nature Writing. When he is not writing or dreaming with the long-ago peoples, he is tanning leathers, leading sacred harvest ceremonies, hand-hewing log cabins, and running unshod with his three wildlings and wonderful wife.