Inferno (Authors' Preferred Edition)

After falling from the eighth story of a hotel during a science fiction convention, writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the Vestibule of Hell. Determined to escape, but curious of exactly where he's landed, Carpentier treks through the Nine Layers of Hell, led by Benito Mussolini. But the more he travels, the more he's intrigued, as each new layer reveals new, puzzling, and outlandish methods of sin recast for the twentieth century.