The title, I have since learned, is a phonetic spelling of an Irish word meaning "roots," and this is a slight clue to where it's going. There isn't a lot of visceral horror here, or gore, it's more the tension of trying to make sense of the central narrative and the odd dynamic between a home caregiver and her stubborn and possibly deluded charge. There's English and Gaelic throughout and (maybe naively, to this American), they seem to echo the modern world and Celtic myth projecting their own expectations on the world.