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 under…