New York never sleeps-because something beneath it doesn't let it.
Before dawn, a man steps off a bus with no suitcase and a past that smells of rain, blood, and old debt. His name is Al Chopya, and he's come to the city that never stops bleeding. A quiet butcher in a corner deli, he hides from what he once fed-and from the thing that still whispers his name from the dark.
But the city has its own appetite.
A reporter chasing disappearances along Hell's Kitchen's wet corridors.
A detective who's seen too many clean crime scenes to believe in coincidences.
A deli owner who hums Sinatra to drown out the hum of the freezer.
And inside that freezer, something alive that remembers the swamp he left behind.
When old debts come collecting-wearing suits, smiles, and the scent of mud-Al must choose between feeding the hunger he made or letting it devour what little humanity he has left.
Because in New York, every debt gets paid-some in money, some in blood.
A razor-edged blend of supernatural horror, urban noir, and Southern Gothic myth, Al Chopya Loose in New York explores what happens when the monsters we make decide they want to live forever. It's a story about appetite, redemption, and the thin line between butcher and priest.
Fans of The Devil All the Time, Hellraiser, and Constantine will devour this haunting descent into the city's underbelly-where even the lights have teeth.