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Set in the fraying pastoral calm of late-1970s Central New York, The Fable of the Serpents follows disgraced evangelical author Trixie Gilbert as she attempts to rebuild her reputation by crafting a new "testimony" for publication. Her earlier books-Dorothy's Last Adventure and Flowers in His Hair-were bestselling fabrications marketed as real-life tales of moral ruin. But her latest work, Greg's Journey, is different. It's based on the journal of a real suicidal teen, twisted into a weaponized parable of demonic possession and sexual corruption. What begins as a cynical attempt at redemption quickly spirals into a cultural wildfire. As the manuscript spreads through church basements and living rooms, Trixie unintentionally becomes the match that lights the pyres and burn barrels of the early Satanic Panic. In DeWitt, sermons turn to accusation, children speak in borrowed tongues, and strange symbols echo through snow and ash. And far beneath the frozen ground, something stirs. The Norse god Forseti-ancient arbiter of balance and judgment-has awakened. And he does not offer warnings. Only verdicts. The Fable of the Serpents is a mythic, unforgiving horror novel about fabricated truth, communal collapse, and the moment when belief becomes violence. It is not a ghost story. It is a sentence. Feast Tales for Famine Times is a cycle of standalone folk horror novels, each an unflinching fable of ritual, consequence, and mythic justice. Drawing from the dark roots of European folklore-Norse judgment, Welsh faerie hunts, Iberian curses-these stories reveal what happens when the gods return... not to save us, but to weigh what we've done. Content Note: Set in the late 1970s, The Fable of the Serpents has a number of elements that may be inappropriate for some audiences. Although few escape divine judgment, readers will still find depictions of religious trauma, anti-LGBT rhetoric, moral panic, symbolic and supernatural violence, spiritual coercion, and psychological manipulation. It portrays the origins of the Satanic Panic through the lens of divine judgment and communal delusion. Reader discretion is advised.
