{"product_id":"hag-stuart-lethe-9798350747997","title":"Hag","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHAG\u003c\/b\u003e is a novel sung, not spoken. A horror opera written in verse. Each page moves with the cadence of a funeral hymn and the weight of an ancient epic, closer to \u003ci\u003eBeowulf or The Divine Comedy, \u003c\/i\u003e than to anything on modern shelves. Every stanza is sharpened, every line built to be felt in the mouth as much as in the mind. The story rises through rhythm and descends through silence and madness. This is horror at its finest, sculpted through song.\u003cbr\u003eA work of language, furious, lyrical, and unrelenting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce did she bow to the many-faced thrones, \u003cbr\u003eWith blood on her hands and her knees to the stones.\u003cbr\u003eShe scattered the seeds, she burned the leaves, \u003cbr\u003eShe wept in the shade of a thousand eaves.\u003cbr\u003eThe gods were cold, and crowned with lies!\u003cbr\u003eThey feasted on famine, they silenced cries.\u003cbr\u003eWhen death took root in her cradle bed, \u003cbr\u003eThey turned their backs, and left her dead.\u003cbr\u003eSo rose she then, from ash and mud, \u003cbr\u003eWith hate for hymns and thirst for blood.\u003cbr\u003eHer prayers grew claws, her songs grew teeth, \u003cbr\u003eShe wore the woods like funeral wreath.\u003cbr\u003eShe danced where once the sacred stood, \u003cbr\u003eAnd made her veil from hungering wood.\u003cbr\u003eThe idols cracked, their gold went green, \u003cbr\u003eTheir temples fell to moss and spleen.\u003cbr\u003eShe struck their names from bark and bone, \u003cbr\u003eShe crowned herself, she walked alone.\u003cbr\u003eBut in the rot, beneath the curse, \u003cbr\u003eShe found a voice not clad in verse.\u003cbr\u003eNot god of fang, nor flame, nor flood, \u003cbr\u003eBut one who weeps in ash and mud.\u003cbr\u003eA whisper low, not carved nor crowned, \u003cbr\u003eThat blooms where all the rest have drowned.\u003cbr\u003eSo though she walks through blood and briar, \u003cbr\u003eA secret ember stirs the mire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stuart Lethe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798350747997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independent Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Stuart Lethe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50664521203967,"sku":"9798350747997","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e80aa3ca-04ec-4b9b-bf8d-a09254800a9b.jpg?v=1792007932","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hag-stuart-lethe-9798350747997","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}