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Abyss

Nicholas Binge · Horror

38 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

cosmic horrorpsychological thrillersurvivalgrimdark
cosmic horrorpsychological thriller

#234 All Time

About this book

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 . . . ‘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 * * * Praise for Nicholas Binge ‘Old-school creepy . . . five-star horro

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