Morrissey's debut novel is about a 1970s relay racing team cursed by a demon

Morrissey's debut novel, "List of the Lost", is being released in UK, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa today - Thursday, September 24 via Penguin Books. Via a post in his official fansite True to You, the ex The Smiths frontman revealed the plot details for the tome (which took him nearly two years to write), and it's definitely pretty amazing and bizarre. Indeed, the story revolves around a relay running team in the 1970s who accidentally kill a poor miscreant who turns out to be an incorporeal demon who curses each of the four main characters.

Here are the words of Moz on the subject:

The theme is demonology … the left-handed path of black magic. It is about a sports relay team in 1970s America who accidentally kill a wretch who, in esoteric language, might be known as a Fetch … a discarnate entity in physical form. He appears, though, as an omen of the immediate deaths of each member of the relay team. He is a life force of a devil incarnate, yet in his astral shell he is one phase removed from life. The wretch begins a banishing ritual of the four main characters, and therefore his own death at the beginning of the book is illusory.

A couple of days ago, also, Penguin Books tweeted a sneak peek at the book, posting a few lines taken from "List of the Lost":