Why am I passionate about this?

At university, I studied Classical Studies, which leans heavily into archaeology. As I went on more site visits, I became much more aware of the worlds and lives which exist below our feet. Later, when working as a teacher in Poland, I had the chance to visit one of Europeā€™s deepest active coal mines. The experience surprised me in so many ways, not least the oppressive heat and the darknessā€”something you feel you can almost touch. From that moment onwardā€”especially as a horror writerā€”Iā€™ve found myself wondering about the nightmares lurking below our world, as well as above, and beyond.


I wrote

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What is my book about?

Decades after his grandfather was buried alive in a Californian gold mine, Dr. Nick Jones teams up with an adventureā€¦

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The books I picked & why

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Kev Harrison Why did I love this book?

As someone who has explored the tombs of Egypt in real life, this story dug its claws right into me.

As well as all the claustrophobia, the darkness, and the sense thereā€™s no way out, Moreland confronts you with ancient gods and monsters so terrifying youā€™ll be testing the walls for a secret passage out of there every step of the way.

By Brian Moreland,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Tomb of Gods as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

"The suspense of the story, aided by sly hints from the author, and the atmosphere of a dark, claustrophobic tomb work together to create a scary story. The characters' fear invites the reader into the world to experience the fright themselves." - Booklist Starred Review

Deep inside the tomb exists a hidden world of wonder and terror.

In 1935, British archaeologists vanished inside an Egyptian cave. A year later, one man returned covered in mysterious scars.

Egyptologist Imogen Riley desperately wants to know what happened to the ill-fated expedition led by her grandfather. On a quest for answers, she joinsā€¦


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Kev Harrison Why did I love this book?

What could be more terrifying than having to plumb the depths of absolute darkness, alone, with nothing but a single cord separating you from escape and being stuck down there forever? How about being on a distant planet, with a sentient AI assistant who is just as likely to be friend or foe?

Author Caitlin Starling delivers scares and isolation in spades in this unique sci-fi horror.

By Caitlin Starling,

Why should I read it?

8 authors picked The Luminous Dead as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best First Novel!

"This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Andy Weir's The Martian." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival.

When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she'd be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. Sheā€¦


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Rescue Mountain by Rebecka Vigus,

Rusty Allen is an Iraqi War veteran with PTSD. He moves to his grandfather's cabin in the mountains to find some peace and go back to wilderness training.

He gets wrapped up in a kidnapping first, as a suspect and then as a guide. He tolerates the sheriff's deputy withā€¦

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Kev Harrison Why did I love this book?

In this novella, Curran taps into that sense of whatā€™s below our feet as another world.

A world from a past so distant from ours that weā€™ve forgotten what lurks there. The reader follows Boyd down into the depths and understands his reasons for taking the job in the bowels of the mine, even as things take turn after turn for the worse.

Curran knows exactly when to paint the horror vividly and when to hold back, or lean into the unsettling and the uncanny.

By Tim Curran,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Underdwelling as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

With a kid on the way, Boyd needed the job bad. But the idea of going underground at the Hobart Mine, down into the dark labyrinth of tunnels to get at the raw ore, left him with a brooding sense of unease. Maybe it was the fact that his father had died down in the mines or maybe it was something much worse. Digging a new drift down in Level #8, the lowest level of the mine, an immense shaft opens up. Boyd and a few others volunteer to explore it. Some 400 feet down, they find a passage thatā€¦


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Kev Harrison Why did I love this book?

This book leans heavily into old English folklore, has terrifying creatures and believable characters.

Above and beyond all that, though, is the atmosphere the author creates in the rabbit warren of the Chislehurst Caves. Itā€™s no secret that Budd is a veteran visitor to this terrifying complex of tunnels and caverns, and it really shows in this book. Even the ā€œquietā€ moments in Enter the Darkness had me shuddering.

By Sarah Budd, Stephanie Ellis (editor), Carrie Allison-Rolling (editor) , Villimey Mist (editor)

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Enter the Darkness as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

During the Spring Solstice, four people enter the caves underneath London.

Garth: a shy young man, who seeks to save the girl of his dreams.

Cassie: a beautiful young woman, who seeks to use the dark magic of the caves for her own purposes.

Bill: an older man with a terrible secret, who seeks to find Garth and Cassie before itā€™s too late.

Sienna: a con artist with a dark past, who seeks to escape her fate as a chosen sacrifice.

Four people enter. Each of them must battle their personal demons before facing the White Lady, who rises eachā€¦


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5 Stars by Louise Blackwick,

Five days before the end of humanity, five unlikely heroes find themselves on an impossible quest to outlive the apocalypse.

5 Stars is the survival story of a mother and her baby facing impossible odds amidst a global apocalypse. Set in a dying world overseen by ā€œThe Neon God,ā€ theā€¦

Book cover of Eyes in the Dust

Kev Harrison Why did I love this book?

Like with Tim Curranā€™s The Underdewlling, above, Eyes in the Dust leans into the cosmic with its approach to whatā€™s below our feet.

A giant borehole has been dug in an unnamed, developing world country revealing an inexplicable anomaly. Our story, though, focuses on a single individualā€™s perspective. Cortlandā€”the archetypal faceless managerā€”comes face to face with the nihilistic reality of what lurks miles beneath the soil, and the horror is almost too much to bear.

By David Peak,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Eyes in the Dust as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

a DUNHAMS MANOR PRESS EXCLUSIVE from the author of THE SPECTACLE OF THE VOID. The world has moved on and left Cortland behind. His career as an academic has fizzled out, his fiancĆ© is dead, and he remains haunted by the notion that itā€™s his fault. When a consulting firm contacts him with the opportunity of a lifetimeā€”two months off the grid studying slime molds at the bottom of an ancient impact craterā€”he has no choice but to accept. He soon learns, however, that the crater holds dark secrets, that death itself is not an exit, but rather a welcomingā€¦


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Book cover of Below

What is my book about?

Decades after his grandfather was buried alive in a Californian gold mine, Dr. Nick Jones teams up with an adventure travel influencer to venture underground and film a documentary, telling the story of what really happened.

What should be a dream come true soon becomes a nightmare as someone or something stirsā€¦Below.

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