Dead Centre, by Reigns

Dead Centre

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Book and CD, alternative cover, paperback

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Second print of Tim Farthing's novel / with Reigns CD - order this version if you're in the EU to avoid Brexit tax.

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Signed and numbered by the author. Limited-edition hardback book with CD attached.
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Dead Centre - Hardcover Book / CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Signed and numbered by the author. Limited-edition hardback book with CD attached.

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Four years in the making, DEAD CENTRE is both a mindbending horror novel by musician TIM FARTHING (Hey Colossus, Henry Blacker, PJ Harvey) and the seventh album by enigmatic electronic duo REIGNS. The hardback book comes complete with a CD soundtrack and is illustrated by the author.

ABOUT THE NOVEL: It is Christmas Eve and Kemp is homeless, sick and suicidal. A last pilgrimage to see his estranged daughter ends in a botched suicide bid and accidental imprisonment inside a shopping centre shut down for the holidays. With an empty mall at his disposal, he thinks his ship has finally come in and promptly hurls himself into one final bender. But as the days pass and his head clears, Kemp comes to realise something is awry. Where are the shoppers? What is the strange waterway that cuts through the centre? Who are the shadowy forms that gather there at night? And what lies beyond the tunnel that only opens after closing time? Slowly it dawns on Kemp that the sins of his past and a life spent on the margins have uniquely qualified him for a job he never asked for: ferryman to the dead.

DEAD CENTRE is a hard-boiled, hallucinatory journey into hell. Think Dante’s Inferno translated by Derek Raymond or Jim Thompson’s adaptation of Dawn of the Dead and you’re halfway there.

ABOUT THE MUSIC: Reigns’ soundtrack is a single 40 minute instrumental that sonically charts Kemp’s descent into the underworld. RIYL Nurse With Wound, The Books, Boards Of Canada.

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released April 5, 2024

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