Mock Soul – Maze Devil Pilgrimage: A Lore Game Book by The Salamander King
Mock Soul – Maze Devil Pilgrimage is a Lore Game Book (LoreGB) by The Salamander King, published by Hollow Press in May 2025. This hardcover first edition is limited to 1500 copies.
Narrative and Thematic Register
The book places the reader inside a demonic maze governed by an exiled god. Body and spirit are consumed in cycles — sacrifice follows sacrifice, and the structure of the narrative is inseparable from this logic of ritual repetition. Obedience and damnation are not opposites here but positions within the same system.
Mock Soul operates across registers simultaneously: it functions as a comic, as a gamebook, and as something closer to a visual ritual. The Salamander King does not resolve these modes into a single coherent genre. The tension between them is the work.
Physical Production
Printed in full color using offset printing on Magno Usomano 140 g paper, the hardcover carries a UV spot finish and stitched binding. The format is 17 × 24 cm, 144 pages.
Collector and Audience Context
This title is addressed to collectors working across underground comics, experimental gamebooks, and dark fantasy visual publishing. The print run of 1500 copies is a factual parameter of this edition. Collectors browsing Artbooks & Artist Publications in this register will recognize the production standard and the imprint.
About The Salamander King
The Salamander King is a contemporary underground artist whose practice draws on mythological, ritualistic, and nightmarish visual traditions. His work does not belong to a single discipline: it occupies the space between sequential art, symbolic narrative, and dark fantasy imagery.
With Mock Soul – Maze Devil Pilgrimage, he delivers a dense Lore Game Book that holds the structures of comic and gamebook in deliberate tension. His publications are released exclusively through Hollow Press.
