Deeper Than Hell by Joshua Millican
Jose and I were approached with reviewing this book by Joshua Millican, published by Encyclopocalypse. I’ll do my best to do it justice, without giving it away. Deeper Than Hell starts out with a couple of semi-sympathetic transient heroine addicts who are forced by drug dealers to explore deeper into the Las Vegas underground. the book feels a little allegorical, like Dante’s Inferno, in that exploring the darkness can also become self-discovery. In plainer terms, the farther these characters get, the crazier the story becomes, and we begin to wonder how reliable our narrator is (The story is told in first-person). This book is full of crazy subterraneans societies, Hellraiser imagery, peppered with conspiracy theories, which sometimes prove to be true in the story’s narrative. It’s an interesting and crazy ride, where the chapters often end on cliff-hangers than make you want yo go on to just one more chapter.
Described as “an epic nightmare inspired by William S. Burroughs and Clive Barker,” Deeper Than Hell is a psychedelic horror story that follows a philosophically inclined heroin addict and his mysteriously optimistic companion as they scavenge, shoot up, and survive in the subterranean tunnel system beneath Las Vegas, where they brave encounters with cults, feral colonies, and ultimately Lovecraftian threats the likes of which they never could have anticipated.
FROM THE ENCYCLOPOCALYPSE PRESS RELEASE
If you can handle this crazy ride of a book, Deeper Than Hell became available June 14th in eBook and in paperback exclusively on Amazon. Buy your Kindle copy now, here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XR6FWDM.
