A short whimisical collection of nightmares, observations, narratives and dubious histories set in the peculiar village of Stockett, where they celebrate the coming of the mysterious Festival Bringer with a series of all-night parties and other more visceral pleasures as the Gypsy Fair sets up camp on the village common. Unexplained deaths, practical jokes, car crashes, gothic horrors and a virtual reality avatar adrift in a digital ocean of uncertainty (and that’s just when the village broadband is working) are the daily grist of Stockett during the Festival of Martyrs.
