Vanikin in the Underworld

by Mark Gullick

Disgraced, deposed, and driven to the ‘underworld’ for the crime of political incorrectness, Harry Vanikin -- formerly Professor Vanikin -- has not left the London housing estate in which he hides for seven years. Even going so far as to cover up his windows, the seventy-year-old Vanikin lives the life of a discarded shadow, going about the motions of something called life and only occasionally visited by his sister, his tormenting nephew, and his fellow residents of the run-down housing project they call home. From these fellows, however, from these similarly mad and equally rejected beings, the ashes begin to stir, and a ray of hope appears for the man who once I tried to teach my students the truth; no one told me the truth was no longer wanted.

Vanikin in the Underworld is the story of the furthest down and possible redemption of an educator who can’t escape education.

206 pages, Paperback

Published April 17, 2025

Reviews

[Bryce · Rating 4 out of 5]

took me a minute to get into it, but once I did. It was great. funny at times. good story overall.The ending I didnt forsee