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Grotesque

By (author): Elliott Dunstan

A darkly erotic fairy tale of death and redemption.

Bedhyndann is a small seaside town in Cornwall. A town that travellers feel uncomfortable in. A town where sailors often choose to stay on their ships rather than coming into port. A town where the golem Denvyth has lived for nearly two hundred years and where he has been waiting for his master, the sorcerer Arderne, to return for one hundred and fifty of those. To pass the time he amuses himself at the siren Victoire’s private club, helping the humans around him fulfill their most dangerous desires. Until he crosses paths with Summers, a client who wants more from Denvyth than he should and who has the clues to unlock the secret of Arderne’s disappearance. But Arderne sought to release an old god and once Denvyth follows his master’s last instructions and finishes the sorcerer’s spell, what he unleashes could make him the monster he’s always feared being and destroy the world.

AUTHOR

Elliott Dunstan

Elliott Dunstan is a trans novelist, poet and historian based out of the Ottawa Valley. Author of several chapbooks and zines, including the long-form poem GULA, he also moonlights as a drag performer and visual artist. Grotesque is his first full-length novel.


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“Grotesque is, at its core, a novel about the search for identity, acceptance, and community, nestled within an epochal gothic rendering of gods and monsters, steeped in sex and violence (and, particularly, where those elements overlap), at once beautiful and hideous.”



Grotesque is a beautifully crafted

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Dimensions:

300 Pages
9in * 6in * 0.6in
500gr

Published:

October 13, 2026

ISBN:

9781998408535

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy

Language:

eng

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