Beneath London (Langdon St. Ives) - Softcover

Blaylock, James P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783292601 ISBN 13: 9781783292608

Publisher: Titan Books, 2015

Synopsis

The collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath the city. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld’s secrets hidden for reasons of his own. 

St. Ives and his stalwart friends investigate a string of ghastly crimes: the gruesome death of a witch, the kidnapping of a blind, psychic girl, and the grim horrors of a secret hospital where experiments in medical electricity and the development of human, vampiric fungi, serve the strange, murderous ends of perhaps St. Ives’s most dangerous nemesis yet.

About this title

About the Author:

James P. Blaylock was mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with K.W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern steampunk. Winner of two World Fantasy Awards and a Philip K. Dick Award, he is director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts and a professor at Chapman University, where he has taught for 20 years.

Review:

"The book was very readable and I enjoyed the secondaries and the villain greatly" - Sci Fi Pulse

"Blaylock crafts rich characters and intertwines them in a bravo story that packs plenty into 400 pages." - Blood Shed 

"Hideous murders, kidnappings and abductions, hair-raising close calls and ingenious escapes." - Michael Collings

About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1783292601
• ISBN 13: 9781783292608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432