Down in the hole - Joy DeLyria

Highly anticipated since its initial online appearance
and immediate viral proliferation, first-time authors and ersatz
Victorian scholars Joy DeLyria and Sean Michael Robinson have
painstakingly created a satirical and fictional world based on the
characters and narrative of television's most loved drama, The Wire.

To be published in time to celebrate The Wire's tenth anniversary, Down in the Hole: the unWired World of H.B. Ogden is a collection of excerpts and illustrations from The Wire,
a Victorian serial novel of DeLyria and Robinson's invention, credited
to fictional author H.B. Ogden. Excerpts from Ogden's work are knit
together by the history of the novel, its author and illustrator, and
the adventures of the passionate archivists who uncovered this forgotten
text.

The Baltimore Sun writes: "...[This] quintessentially Victorian vision of Ogden's The Wire...is a scintillating piece of faux-scholarship. It's set in an alternate universe where the HBO series doesn't exist-and where The Wire in any form, including Horatio Bucklesby Ogden's, has yet to be discovered."

Gawker asks: "So, how long before we can actually buy this illustrated version of The Wire? I'd put it on my Amazon wish list now if I could."