The Anubis Gates

Brendan Doyle, a twentieth-century English professor, travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This London is filled with deformed clowns, organized beggar societies, insane homunculi, and magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684. Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinker who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others’ bodies when his latest becomes too hairy.