cover image The Sacred Blood

The Sacred Blood

Mark Ramsden. Serpent's Tail, $13 (215pp) ISBN 978-1-85242-681-1

The Sacred Blood, the dark and comic sequel to Mark Ramsden's black-humored The Dungeonmaster's Apprentice, continues to follow the adventures of s&m aficionados Matt Jackson and the Supreme Ogress Sasha as they attempt to overthrow the Black Order, a group of neo-Nazi Satanists led by the evil, ""triple-chinned"" Dungeonmaster. Trangression is the norm as Sasha and Matt's army of misfits and Morris dancers battle the forces of darkness amid a world full of sex, drugs (prescription and otherwise), disguise and black magic.