Overview
The Unhallowed Shepherd: A Novel of the Irish Werewolf
An ink-stained-priest's hands wake with blood beneath them - and all that remains honest within him is the wolf.
On a howling 9th-century Atlantic coast in Ireland, Father Ciar n mac Aodh n translates pre-Christian verse into Latin - telling himself that the two parts of his soul might be reconciled onto parchment. Then the sheep are torn apart. Then a fisherman. Then a young boy whom Ciar n had baptised himself. The scratches on his arms have no explanation he dares utter, and elderly Muir ol, the healer, observes him crossing the churchyard, making a sign that isn't the Cross itself.
When a mild-mannered Northumbrian scholar named Brother Tadhg arrives bearing forbidden texts - and promising a cure - Ciar n finally sees hope from above. But Muir ol recognizes the form of an even older craving - and the hill below the monastery has really been thinking for over 1,000 years. What does one man owe the very earth that shaped him - and what will the land exact in return?
For fans of Andrew Michael Hurley's 'The Loney', Francis Spufford's 'Golden Hill', Paul Kingsnorth's 'The Wake', and Glen Duncan's 'The Last Werewolf': here's a bilingual, bone-deep folk horror story concerning faith, heritage, and the shepherd transformed into the monster lurking in the shadows.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798237360097
- ISBN-10: 9798237360097
- Publisher: Shawn Shepherd
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.85 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.84 pounds
- Page Count: 384
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