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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NINA ALLANJoel Lane (1963-2013) was one of the UK’s foremost writers of dark, unsettling fiction, a frank explorer of sexuality and the transgressive aspects of human nature. With a tight focus on the post-industrial Black Country and his home city of Birmingham, he created a distinct form of British urban weird fiction.His debut collection, The Earth Wire was first published in 1994 by Egerton Press and is reissued in paperback by Influx Press for the first time in over twenty-five years.Love and death. Sex and despair. The Earth Wire is a thrilling, disturbing examination of the means and the cost of survival.