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The Gusty Deep is an epic monster-tale that pokes holes between world ages and lets them chatter to one another through a keyhole in the moss. In this very adult faerie-tale, twelfth-century Britain descends into the chaos of The Anarchy. Lux, daughter of the surviving member of the Green Children of Woolpit, narrowly escapes a forced marriage with a stranger, with the help of a way-faring man called Robin Goodfellow. He takes Lux back to his band of Others—the queer, the whores, and the witches—together, can they save the land, its resources, and their very right to exist as the world slips into civil war?
“My story is a terrible one. The lightning storm that ejaculated out my infant spirit into the death-wrestle for life within my Mumma’s body dragon-beget me, my caul-ridden light a disaster of shadow cast on stone three times larger than life and thick with death. I’ve swallowed the nectar of the awenydd and the goblin poison of the hob men was converted in my body into red-capped mushrooms who spring up in the splatters of my blood because I’m the hedge-dweller the light in the dark sleight of hand man and all the glamour tricks of the Edge Men -walking… The mighty heart of the mountain that haunts the eagles beats fierce in my belly, wolf-turned till my poet’s so strong he devours the lover and fighter in me into one sharp edged blade forged in hell. I am he who they say is coming through the cracks in things once in a century. I’m still coming. Say my name three times. Tell the innocent to taste hope and let the guilty tremble.”
-The Gusty Deep, Lee Morgan, 2022
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