Wet Work

What lurks in the darkness of the chasm?

Edmonville was an ordinary town full of ordinary citizens going about their everyday business. Then the tremor hit. Glass shattered, concrete crumbled, buildings collapsed, and everything vanished beneath choking clouds of dust. The few survivors emerged, only to confront a terrifying and unbelievable sight.

Most of Edmonville has disappeared into an enormous crevasse. The ruined buildings that remain are perched on a series of peaks, many of them separated from each other by hundreds of feet. The world outside seems to no longer exist.

But something is stirring deep below in the darkness. Something is about to emerge from the depths to unleash a horrifying onslaught on the survivors, an onslaught that will become a desperate fight to stay alive.

This book has been previously published and has been revised and expanded from its original release.

Heaster Wharton is dead, and his passing might mean an end to hostilities between the Manders and the Coys. If the the elderly patriarch showed the kindness and foresight to split his land cleanly between his feuding descendants, then a truce could be arranged.

"A fresh and true voice that will affect you, disturb you, enrage you, or make you laugh."-Kevin J. Anderson, Dune series

THE FIRST


A collection of 13 dark fantasy, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and science fiction stories from award-winning author Scott Nicholson. These stories visit undiscovered countries and shadowy avenues of the heart, lands and times where night never ends and matter doesn't matter. Features the six-story Aeropagan cycle where time is literally money. Includes an afterword and Nicholson's first-ever published story.

Nicholson, a 1999 Writers of the Future award winner, has published 12 novels, including the bestselling  thrillers DISINTEGRATION, LIQUID FEAR, and THE RED CHURCH and the comic books Grave Conditions, Dirt, and Little Shivers. Look for his other collections ASHES, FLOWERS, CURTAINS, and ZOMBIE BITS. If you like science fiction with a pulp horror feel, check out THE HARVEST.

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"Always surprises and always entertains."--Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

"Quirky, twisted, finely crafted tales that carry a powerful emotional impact."--David Farland

"A very entertaining writer."-- Tim Powers