Alan Campbell, Author . Bantam Spectra $22 (421p) ISBN 978-0-553-38416-1
Campbell sets his stunning debut fantasy in Deepgate, a town wreathed in chains that keep it hanging suspended over a bottomless abyss, peopled by worshippers of Lord Ulcis, the god of chains, and tormented by a mad angel named Carnival. The author,
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Alan Campbell, Author . Subterranean $25 (135p) ISBN 978-1-59606-135-4
Campbell's nightmarish prequel to Scar Night
(2006) explores the depths of twisted revenge. Every half-century since the Deepgate year 511, when Henry Bucklestrappe was extracted mysteriously from the temple dungeons and nastily murdered, the...
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Alan Campbell, Author . Bantam Spectra $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-38417-8
While not so complexly plotted as to repel new readers, this grim middle volume (after 2006's Scar Night
) also does little to attract them. Most strikingly, the novel lacks a protagonist. Virtually every character is a pawn in the ongoing war...
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Alan Campbell, Author . Bantam Spectra $25 (367p) ISBN 978-0-553-38418-5
In the dramatic third and almost certainly concluding volume of Campbell's Deepgate Codex (after 2008's Iron Angel
), an apocalyptic battle between warring gods puts the very existence of humankind in jeopardy as gore-splattered...
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Alan Campbell. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (128p) ISBN 978-1-59606-439-3
In a world where the Henry Sill Banking Corporation literally owns everything and everyone and even extends its tendrils into Hell, Jack Aviso, a complaint officer for the bank, is careful to stay within the bank’s rules and never, ever borrow funds
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