A propulsive corporate horror where one man's descent into the nine-to-five becomes an experience of terrors beyond comprehension. For fans of Severance, Lovecraft and John Scalzi.
This job will eat you alive.
From the bestselling author of Ascension, Nicholas Binge, Abyss is a creeping, Lovecraftian horror about work, technology and existential dread.
Joe Rice is lost – lonely, disconnected and terminally online. His new job as an administrative assistant at the Ponos corporation seems like just another unfulfilling stop-gap. But from his first day, something is deeply wrong. The vast Canary Wharf office is empty, his line manager is a bundle of paranoid energy, and his work is monitored by WellBot, an AI wellness chatbot that demands total honesty while tracking his every move.
As Joe’s tasks descend into a surreal nightmare, he’ll eventually learn that handing in his notice could have deadly consequences . . .
‘The horror book for our modern age’ – Grimdark Magazine
‘Creepy and claustrophobic’ – The Fantasy Hive
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Praise for Nicholas Binge
‘Old-school creepy . . . five-star horror’ – Stephen King
‘Extremity is a fantastic, twisty, exhilarating novella . . . easily in the running for best novella of the year’ – The Fantasy Hive
‘Binge is an author to watch’ – TJ Klune
"Abyss does a fantastic job of staying uniformly creepy and claustrophobic, drawing its inspiration from a wide variety of sources while remaining trippy as heck." - The Fantasy Hive
"The horror book for our modern age . . . I f***ing loved it" - Grimdark Magazine
"This novella understands the hollow ache of modern life and transforms it into something terrifying, tender, and impossible to forget" - Ginger Nuts of Horror
