The Dancing Plague Jude Ellison S. Doyle Nominated for Ignatz Awards

Nominated for Ignatz Awards

"Refreshingly revelatory and charmingly accessible

obsessive pages read like a manifesto

excoriating work is more necessary than ever

but for Aster and Ariel

The Dancing Plague Jude Ellison S. Doyle Nominated for Ignatz AwardsBy Gareth Brookes. Published by Self Made Hero. Softcover, 192 pages, Colour, 2021 The Dancing Plague tells a true story, from 1518, when hundreds of inhabitants of Strasbourg were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance, from the imagined perspective of Mary, one of its witnesses. Prone to mystic visions as a child, betrayed in the convent to which she flees, then abused by her loutish husband, Mary endures her life as an