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Freakslaw

Freakslaw

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REPRESENTATION:

Black, Disabled, Disabled Character, Disabled: Congenital Disorder, Disabled: Facial Difference, Fat, Fat Characters, Femme, Queer, Queer Author, Queer Characters

CONTENT WARNINGS:

Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, Blood, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Physical abuse, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Alcohol, Classism

In this riotous horror debut, a traveling carnival of troublemakers arrive in a small Scottish town and perform their favorite pastime: revenge.

It is the summer of '97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.

Enter the Freakslaw--a travelling carnival of deviant queers and architects of mayhem. There's Gloria, fortune teller and worm charmer; her daughter Nancy, a contortionist witch; big-hearted tightrope walker, Werewolf Louie; not to mention illusionists and conjoined twins, Cass and Henry, and tattooed human pincushion, the Pin Gal. Against Pitlaw's miserably grey landscape, the carnival shines electric and bright, and it doesn't take long for the town's teenagers to be seduced by its neon charms and the possibility of escape.

But beneath it all, these newcomers are harboring a darker desire: revenge. Revenge for being cast out, never allowed to settle, punished for purely existing. And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic, unwelcoming locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that has been bubbling for centuries is about to be unleashed . . .

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