A TOMB IN H-SECTION
by Louis Armand
EQUUS PRESS, 2025
Full colour paperback, 662 pages
ISBN 978-1-7394310-4-4
Publication date: 1 April 2025

“Armand is one of the few writers truly wrestling with what it is to write in a world that has left literature behind.” Joe Darlington, MANCHESTER REVIEW OF BOOKS

A Tomb in H-Section is the crowning achievement of Louis Armand’s Golemgrad Pentalogy, which already includes such works of startling originality as The Combinations, Death Mask Sutra, Vampyr, & Glitchhead.

An intricate, visionary work of multimedial synergy that evolves the template of the 21st-century novel by magnitudes, A Tomb in H-Section is simultaneously an illustrated historical epic, a metaphysical bildungsroman, a space opera, a videogame, a world-wide conspiracy thriller, a retelling of the Golem myth, a lost Goons Show, a child’s comicbook collection (“Phantom Regime,” “Brainworm,” “Rat King,” “Life & Death of Martha Dodd”), & much more.

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“From contagion to collapse, and hence the excess of fugitives & infiltrators — A TOMB IN H-SECTION by Louis Armand is a carousel of rubble versus a vacuum: untamed geometries: hatchings described under thermobaric synthesis: reptilian dendrites, over cogwheels and screens of God: nutritional scarifications, similar to the dystopias of retinopassivity: films where everything became more cloudy, insecure and swampy. As in the metapsychic minotaurs of the Age-of-When: autocratic regimes of perception, or the germs of a voice formed into nothing…” Rui Baião, author of STRANGVLATORIVM

“This is a high-density referential universe orbiting in Escher-space, constantly expanding its intertextual modalities as the atoms of the novel are split, sent reeling, irradiate and re-amass in the latest of Armand’s tomes.” minor literature[s]

“A TOMB IN H-SECTION is what happens when you let a genius play. Charming, lighthearted, and irreverent. A joy to read.” Charlene Elsby

“Louis Armand, in this zany and fiery culmination of the Golemgrad pentalogy, has produced a multimedia extravaganza that is comic in every sense (including graphically).” Nicholas Birns

“A necromodernist tour de force!” Ramiro Sanchiz

“Louis Armand’s talent and versatility are unparalleled. He forges the New at every turn, & A TOMB IN H-SECTION may be his greatest accomplishment, revealing an author at the height of his powers. The ghost of high modernism sings through Armand’s high-octane artistry.” D. Harlan Wilson

“A striking and unstable admixture of visual and textual storytelling in which Armand cements himself as just the kind of mad-scientist-cum-philosopher-cum-avant-gardist needed to survive the technocratic authoritarianism of the mid-twenty-first century. Bring on the Armandgeddon!” Wayne Bradshaw