A weekend camping trip curdles into ancient horror when an old legend wakes.

Two couples set off on what should be an ordinary camping trip, and by dawn only one of them is left standing. Sóley and her husband, Jónas, are visiting Iceland from the US, their marriage strained by years of failed attempts to start a family. When plans for a lakeside cabin fall through, Jónas’s oldest friend, Auðunn, suggests wild camping instead, arriving with a girlfriend half his age instead of the wife everyone expected. As the group’s tangled histories surface around the campfire, so does an old local legend of a farmer’s curse.

Told across four parts, each following one character to their end, the novel moves between the intimate and the monstrous with unnerving control. What begins as a marriage drama slides steadily into a ferocious folkloric slasher, where old Icelandic superstition and a  very modern reckoning with love, envy and grief prove equally lethal. Through raw, lyrical prose, the story peels apart layer by layer, gradually revealing a rich, razor-sharp genre subversion that plays chillingly against convention.

“Precise, poetic, ominous, suspenseful – I loved every page.”
FRIDA ISBERG, AUTHOR