The Underdwelling

By Tim Curran,

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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…

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1 author picked The Underdwelling as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In this novella, Curran taps into that sense of what’s below our feet as another world.

A world from a past so distant from ours that we’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.

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