The Unhallowed Shepherd

The Unhallowed Shepherd: A Novel of the Irish Werewolf

An ink-stained-priest's hands wake with blood beneath them - and all that remains honest within him is the wolf.

On a howling 9th-century Atlantic coast in Ireland, Father Ciarán mac Aodhán translates pre-Christian verse into Latin - telling himself that the two parts of his soul might be reconciled onto parchment. Then the sheep are torn apart. Then a fisherman. Then a young boy whom Ciarán had baptised himself. The scratches on his arms...