Meat Puppet Cabaret
Beard presents a dark fantasy novel that starts from a weird idea: what if Jack the Ripper were a demon summoned by the black magician John Dee to steal Princess Diana's baby Allegra from the scene of the car crash in Paris? The novel follows Allegra's adventures as she quests to discover her true identity in a nightmare alternate England.
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