Nineteen original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prising open the tombs of the past, from award-winning authors and editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi.
Perfect for fans of Ellen Datlow.
Unearthed digs beneath these crumbling structures to reveal their archaic pasts, and their darkest secrets. Featuring the best modern writers of horror and dark fantasy, these stories explore the caverns and the catacombs, the ruined temples and the monoliths – and drag an ancient evil back into the light.
Featuring stories from: Tananarive Due Christopher Golden Josh Malerman Tim Lebbon Eric LaRocca A.M. Shine Jonathan Maberry Hildur Knútsdóttir Ai Jiang A. G. Slatter Mark Chadbourn Priya Sharma Benjamin Percy V. Castro Gemma Amor Cavan Scott Premee Mohamed Hache Pueyo Steve Toase
Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. His anthology This Dreaming Isle was shortlisted for both a Shirley Jackson Award and a British Fantasy Award, and his debut collection Only the Broken Remain was nominated for two British Fantasy Awards (Best Collection & Best Newcomer). His fiction has appeared in Black Static, Nightscript, The Lonely Crowd, Unthology, Not One of Us, Nox Pareidolia, Beyond the Veil and Flame Tree’s Terrifying Ghosts anthology. His non-fiction has appeared everywhere from Salon to The Guardian. He is an editor at award-winning publisher Unsung Stories.
"Each well-written tale hits home with how scary it can be to be alone. Read it alone if you dare but beware of the isolation!" - San Francisco Book Review (4/5 Stars)
"The collection seems charged with a rare depth of feeling, perhaps a result of everyone’s recent shared experience of lockdown" - Financial Times
"One of the most chilling and frankly upsetting short stories I have ever read" - Ginger Nuts of Horror on Gwendoline Kiste's The Peculiar Seclusion of Molly McMarshall
This is a top quality anthology. Something for everyone and most of all it should make you consider why isolation is terrifying and our own relationship to the concept. Highly recommended! - Runalong the Shelves
Nineteen original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prising open the tombs of the past, from award-winning authors and editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi.
Perfect for fans of Ellen Datlow.
Unearthed digs beneath these crumbling structures to reveal their archaic pasts, and their darkest secrets. Featuring the best modern writers of horror and dark fantasy, these stories explore the caverns and the catacombs, the ruined temples and the monoliths – and drag an ancient evil back into the light.
Featuring stories from: Tananarive Due Christopher Golden Josh Malerman Tim Lebbon Eric LaRocca A.M. Shine Jonathan Maberry Hildur Knútsdóttir Ai Jiang A. G. Slatter Mark Chadbourn Priya Sharma Benjamin Percy V. Castro Gemma Amor Cavan Scott Premee Mohamed Hache Pueyo Steve Toase
Creators
Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. His anthology This Dreaming Isle was shortlisted for both a Shirley Jackson Award and a British Fantasy Award, and his debut collection Only the Broken Remain was nominated for two British Fantasy Awards (Best Collection & Best Newcomer). His fiction has appeared in Black Static, Nightscript, The Lonely Crowd, Unthology, Not One of Us, Nox Pareidolia, Beyond the Veil and Flame Tree’s Terrifying Ghosts anthology. His non-fiction has appeared everywhere from Salon to The Guardian. He is an editor at award-winning publisher Unsung Stories.
"Each well-written tale hits home with how scary it can be to be alone. Read it alone if you dare but beware of the isolation!" - San Francisco Book Review (4/5 Stars)
"The collection seems charged with a rare depth of feeling, perhaps a result of everyone’s recent shared experience of lockdown" - Financial Times
"One of the most chilling and frankly upsetting short stories I have ever read" - Ginger Nuts of Horror on Gwendoline Kiste's The Peculiar Seclusion of Molly McMarshall
This is a top quality anthology. Something for everyone and most of all it should make you consider why isolation is terrifying and our own relationship to the concept. Highly recommended! - Runalong the Shelves
