Ultan Banan

ALLi Author Member

Location: Europe

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Horror, Historical Fiction, Humour

Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Writing Workshop

Ultan Banan started writing as a way of getting his head straight, discovering in the process that staying busy is the only way to stop oneself going insane. He devotes what time he can to writing, doing his best to avoid gainful employment by increasingly creative means. He lives on the move but dreams of a small cottage on a foul and inhospitable coast somewhere. Currently in Scotland.

Ultan Banan's books

Meat

In the murky wake of the financial crisis a string of establishments pop up across Europe catering to a hedonistic underground, its clientele beholden to a strange, hallucinatory meat. Stoked by the fleshy and charismatic Hugo and fuelled by voracious consumption of ecstasy, the craze spreads from the heart of Europe all the way to the Mediterranean, where in Athens the financial elite begin to turn on each other. Murder, barbecue and apocalyptic raving ensues, culminating in the most savage party Mykonos has ever seen. Follow the story to its destructive end, where consumption eats itself alive.

Notes from a Cannibalist

1847. Assuming the identity of a dead Jesuit priest, a survivor of the famine in Ireland travels to South America where he is tasked with rebuilding the missions among the natives. Inducted into local life, Father James Carmichael finds love with a native woman and becomes acquainted with the ways of the Guaraní, discovering ayahuasca and ritualism. In a battle with his own gods and demons, the priest fights for the life he envisions, his own self the ultimate stake of the struggle. Worlds are shattered, realities crumbled, lives destroyed. His soul victim to the crucible of the New World, what is tempered in the chaos will be outside his control.

A Whore's Song

Hidden away in the backstreets of Amsterdamis a secretive whorehouse, open only to those in the know, where pain and extreme sexual sport are the vehicles to understanding and self-knowledge. Run by the obscure Madame Zhu, the establishment is a magnet to the city’s elite and mad soul-seekers alike. Two lives collide in a chaotic downward spiral brought about by psychoactives and sexual torture when, over the course of a day, a whore recounts her life as a destroyer of egos, and one man is forced to face his deepest demons. Cast out into the far reaches of his mind, will he make it back from the other side?

In a world where the weak become prey and strength means brutality, living may come at the cost of dying first.

The Book of God

God isn't dead. He's just a bit mental…
Indignant at his corrupt and ignominious creation, God sits and stews in his treehouse outside the small town of Brawl. His only companion and sole remaining attendant, a withered and tortured scribe, chronicles the Lord’s descent into madness as he struggles to collect all the lost souls which have escaped his records and further addled the Lord’s already woolly mind. But when the Scribe is forced to hire a maid to care for the Almighty, the introduction of a buxom woman into God’s life brings chaos in its wake. And what’s more, the maid has an innocent and attractive young daughter…
Suffering rejection, humiliation and loathing of humankind, God seeks a way to bring back Christ and trigger the Apocalypse. The only thing standing in his way? God’s old harpy of a mother…

Little Swine: A Southern Gothic

A small basement cell. A dirty bed. A chair.
These are the confines of Little Swine’s world. Prisoner of Momma and subject to the tortures of Boy, her life is a living hell.
Momma is a disturbed woman. Her plan is simple: Momma wants a baby so that she may redeem the sins of her past. This is Little Swine’s purpose. And when Momma has what she wants, Little Swine will be discarded.
But violence begets violence and blood begets blood, and many will die before the devil has his quota. One can never underestimate the power of retribution.

The Cottage: An American Gothic

Turning their backs on New York, John and Katie Mears purchase their dream home in colonial Connecticut, the place they hope to raise their firstborn and build life as a family. But the cradle of the American nation has a haunting past, and they find themselves swallowed by a dark history, one of blood and anguish, a specter of the country’s painful birth in the slaughter of pilgrim times. The dark crucible of the nation is yet manifest. Blood debt is eternal, and sooner or later history calls for retribution. It is the blood of innocents that pays for the sins of the father.

The Sistema Series

There is a company that provides a deeply sinister service for shady clients: subconscious torture for political or corporate manipulation. Vangelis Zervas is an agent of Vathos and does his job with zero qualms. But when a young boy is killed over a highly coveted piece of software that may have been produced by the company, the boy’s mother goes in search of her son’s killers. Meeting a group of disparate rebels with their own hostility toward Vathos, they join forces to bring the company down. Vangelis Zervas is on their radar, but will he see his way to help them and go rogue, or stay true to the devil inside?
Sistema is a dystopian/cyberpunk horror that journeys into hell itself in exploration of man’s search for power and control.

The Dialogues of Pietro Aretino

Nanna has been a nun. She’s been a wife. She has also been a courtesan. And now, as her daughter turns sixteen, she must decide how to advise on her path in life. On what route should she send young Pippa?

Bawdy, filthy, hilarious and uproarious, listen to Nanna regale her friend Antonia with scandalous tales—tales of seduction, blasphemy, lies, dishonesty, thievery, nastiness, cruelty and treachery—in an attempt to decide on what course to set her daughter: should she be a nun, a wife or a courtesan?

A modern translation by author Ultan Banan.

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