Masks - A Historical Fantasy - Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller

Historical fantasy. At the behest of his patron, a medieval scribe narrates his journey as an inquisitive, puzzled six-year-old on tour with his family troupe of players. Performing their farces across a landscape of war, plague, religious strife and feral cats, they transport a hamper of curse-bearing masks that intrude themselves into the boy’s dreams and the troupe's reality, culminating in a Nordic Armageddon.

Though set in Late Antiquity, it’s based on the authors’ own experience as a family of traveling players playing an offbeat mix of farce and tragedy: playing for gods, playing for peasants, playing for cats.

It's about making sense of the fears that provoke self-destruction, improvising the strategies of daily survival, and getting a laugh. (Publisher)