Synopses & Reviews
Slow Chocolate Autopsy incidents from the notorious career of Norton, Prisoner of London.
A remarkable collaboration between Iain Sinclair (Lights Out for the Territory, Downriver) and Dave McKean (Arkham Asylum, Cages), Slow Chocolate Autopsy follows its central character, Norton, through the underbelly of London's history. Trapped in space within the city limits of London but not in time, Norton is present at dark deeds in Deptford at the time of Christopher Marlowe's death to the East End at the time of the murder of Jack the Hat.
Bizarre and phantasmagoric, Slow Chocolate Autopsy draws on dark and paranoid images of the city, from the Renaissance, through Dickens and Jack the Ripper, to the Krays and the decay of Thatcher's London, a geography that Sinclair has made uniquely his own. Dave McKean's graphics create a haunting and unsettling city that only really exists in the mind.
About the Author
Iain Sinclair was born in South Wales. He has lived in London since the mid-Sixties. He has published three novels,
White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings,
Downriver, and
Radon Daughters; a number of collections of poetry; and, most recently, the documentary collection
Lights Out for the Territory.
Dave McKean was born in 1963. He has worked with writer Neil Gaiman on Mr. Punch and Signal to Noise, with Grant Morrison on Arkham Asylum, and with the Rolling Stones on Voodoo Lounge. He has also written his own graphic novel, Cages. He has designed album covers for musicians as varied as Tori Amos, Alice Cooper, Michael Nyman, Bill Bruford, and Skinny Puppy.
Table of Contents
i The Fifth Man in the Garden 1
ii The Articulate Head 14
iii Hardball 30
iv The Apotheosis of Lea Bridge Road 44
v No More Yoga of the Night Club 60
vi The Griffin's Egg 82
vii Careful the Horse's Bite 94
viii The Double-Death of the Falconer 112
ix Two Gentlemen of Soho 132
x Living with Raptors 144
xi Scrip. Scribe. Script. 160
xii The Contents of the Kettles 176