The Underdwelling

by Tim Curran

Description

When a baby is on the way, Boyd takes a desperate job at Hobart Mine—only to find that the deeper he digs, the more the darkness feels like it’s watching back. After a new drift opens into an immense shaft, Boyd and a small crew descend into a hidden, prehistoric cavern where stone holds the remnants of a world long dead. Trapped by a cave-in, they must navigate a fossilized labyrinth as something ancient stirs beneath the rock—coldly intelligent, patient, and unmistakably lonely. Blending claustrophobic suspense with mythic, subterranean horror, the novel explores fear, inheritance, and what it means to disturb a past that never truly stayed buried.

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Crossroad Press

Published Oct 30, 2017

100 pages

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@gxuosiJul 3, 2026

sometimes a family is a man, a eldritch 250 million year old spider woman, and her hundreds of babies

Details

First Published

2017

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for The Underdwelling by Tim Curran.

War/Trauma
Death/Grief
Violence