Alan Campbell - Author of Scar Night and the Deepgate Codex

Welcome to the offical website of fantasy novelist Alan Campbell.

Scar Night: Volume One of the Deepgate Codex

"Campbell has Neil Gaiman's gift for lushly dark stories and compelling antiheroes, and effortlessly channels the Victorian atmospherics of writer and illustrator Mervyn Peake as well. This imaginative first novel will have plenty of readers anxiously awaiting his follow-up."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Hugely powerful and remarkable. Highly Recommended."

SFREVU

"Stunning" (Five out of Five)

STARBURST

"This book is far too good to be anybody's first novel, so expect a lot of established authors to get cross."

SFX

"Scar Night is indecently good"

THE GUARDIAN

"...an engaging fantasy read that combines Victorian detail with a dark, Gaiman-like tone... In Scar Night Campbell weaves a morose thriller that redefines dark fantasy.." MANIA.com

"I haven't read a fantasy this good in years - it is utterly marvelous."

NEAL ASHER, author of The Voyage of the Sable Keech

Iron Angel: Volume Two of the Deepgate Codex

“Flavorsome, original and leavened with a fierce sense of humor.”

KIRKUS

"Campbell takes everything that was great about “Scar Night”—the concept, the unforgettable milieu, the evocative atmosphere—and makes it all bigger & better... an incredible urban/gothic fantasy that will be hard to top."

fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com

"Very dark fantasy... entrancing."

BOOKLIST

"A big bold fantasy... British Fantasy has another rising star."

SFX (4 out of 5 stars)

"Compelling, fascinating, and fast-paced... unusual and memorable."

ROMANTIC TIMES (4 out of 5 stars)

God of Clocks: Volume Three of the Deepgate Codex

"In the dramatic third and almost certainly concluding volume of Campbell's Deepgate Codex (after 2008's Iron Angel), an apocalyptic battle between warring gods puts the very existence of humankind in jeopardy as gore-splattered battlefields spill over from the realm of mortals and the depths of Hell to the labyrinth of Time itself. Featuring an ensemble cast of richly described characters, including a soul-eating giant and an angel trapped inside a 400-foot-tall golem, the numerous story lines eventually converge in a finale involving a multiverse of time paradoxes and mind-bending plot twists. Campbell's experience in video game design is evident in the relentless pacing and highly imaginative settings as well as his meticulous attention to detail in the many fight sequences. Readers will thrill to the hellishly dark imagery and labyrinthine plot lines."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

US Edition out now.

UK Edition out June 2009.

Lye Street: A Novella of the Deepgate Codex

A limited edition hardcover from Subterranean Press with illustrations by Hugo award-winning artist, Bob Eggleton, and a dust jacket by Dave McKean of Sandman, Hellblazer and Mirrormask fame

"In a civilization literally built upon nothing, dark magic and vengeance are the rule of the day, and Campbell will quickly have readers under his creepy and sometimes heartbreaking spell."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Strikingly Beautiful"

GREEN MAN REVIEW