Devil in a Coma

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by Lanegan, Mark | Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Published 12/03/2026 by Orion Publishing Co (White Rabbit) in the United Kingdom Paperback | 160 pages1 28 x 197 x 17mm | 146gFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP'Expressionistic and visceral . . . exhilarating and unexpectedly funny' THE I PAPERPoetic, raw, hallucinogenic and darkly witty, Devil in a Coma charts Mark Lanegan's terrifying, mind-expanding experience of acute illness and the confrontation it forces with mortality itself.Struck down by Covid-19, drifting in and out of a coma, unable to walk and given little hope of survival, these diaries see Lanegan assaulted by nightmares, visions and regrets about an existence lived on the edge of chaos and disorder. In arresting prose and at times transcendent poetry, Devil in a Coma is one man's intimate reckoning with a lifetime spent cheating death. Show more