Her longer work includes the novel, The Five Turns of the Wheel and the novellas, Bottled and Paused. Moses’ What One Wouldn’t Do, Demain Publishing’s A Silent Dystopia and Brigids Gate Press’ Were Tales. Stephanie Ellis writes dark speculative prose and poetry and has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, the most recent being Scott J. With Reborn, Ellis delivers another powerful tale of folk horror that will captivate the reader from the first page until its final bloody climax. Ultimately, though, Reborn is the story of Betty, the most monstrous of the three brothers. Reborn is the story of Megan, who follows Cernunnos and Hweol’s sons on a pilgrimage of hope-one that would see her husband restored to her and the dark presence of Hweol removed. Rendered weak by Megan’s refusal to allow them to hunt in the human world of the Weald, they seek their rebirth and forgiveness from the Mother and Cernunnos. Reborn is the story of Tommy, Betty and Fiddler, the infamous troupe whose bloody rituals were halted by Megan, Tommy’s Daughter. Born of blood offerings, he travels to the Layerings-one of those places, like Umbra, which sit just beyond the human veil. Reborn is the story of Cernunnos, the Father of all, who has risen. Return to the Weald, the world Stephanie Ellis introduced us to in The Five Turns of the Wheel.
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