LYE STREET Alan Campbell 1st HC SIGNED/LIMITED OOP

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LYE STREET by Alan Campbell, dust jacket by Dave McKean. Burton, MI; Subterranean Press; 2008. 1st edition hardcover.Alan Campbell's 26,000 word novella, is a prequel to his stunning fantasy debut, Scar Night, the first novel of the Deepgate Codex. Lye Street ends just w the novel picks up! The Greene family is cursed. Every fifty years Deepgate's scarred angel, Carnival, returns to murder another descendant. Now, five hundred years after the first victim's death, Sal Greene is facing his own doom. His time has almost run out. In a desperate attempt to break the chain of violence and save his family, he summons a demon to the chained city: a warrior he hopes is powerful enough to stand against the angel. Yet the creature which arrives in Deepgate is not quite the legendary mercenary Sal Greene was expecting. Lye Street will be available exclusively from Subterranean Press. From Publishers Weekly "Campbell meshes pity with terror against the bleak phantasmagoric backdrop of a city suspended from chains, swinging dismally over a yawning abyss. In a civilization literally built upon nothing, dark magic and vengeance are the rule of the day, and Campbell will quickly have readers under his creepy and sometimes heartbreaking spell." From Green Man Review: Lye Street "also has some strikingly beautiful moments, in that harsh, dark way read more