Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell

“Tastefully insane and morbidly fun . . . delightfully realistic . . . Dante’s Inferno as envisioned by Monty Python. A sidesplitting pleasure.” —Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

The empire on which the sun never sets has turned its ambitions toward a land where it’s never even risen: Victorian Britain is colonizing Hell itself.

The demons who once ran amok down there, torturing lost souls, were easy enough to subdue. The damned, left without tormentors, have been put...