Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781037402098 |
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| ISBN-10: | 103740209X |
| Author: | Nicholas Binge |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 138mm x 205mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Old-school creepy … five-star horror – Stephen King on Ascension
A rollicking good read. Playful, inventive and vivid, with addictive narrative drive – Lionel Shriver, internationally bestselling author of We Need to Talk About Kevin on Ascension
A weird and wonderful horror novel … Binge is an author to watch – TJ Klune, author of The House in the Cerulean Sea on Ascension
Binge has written a profound and elegiac story that examines science, faith and the concept of humanity itself – what it means to live and die, to yearn and strive, and all the spaces in between – Sunyi Dean, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters on Ascension
Corporate life is hell in this bleakly witty SF horror novella … a current of palpable anger at its heart makes for a compelling and haunting read * SFX *
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 *
Nicholas Binge
Nicholas Binge’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal, The FT, Entertainment Weekly, and The Washington Post. His work has been translated into eleven languages, with multiple projects in development for film and television.
His novel, Ascension, a New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick, has been hailed as a must-read ‘5-star horror novel’ by Stephen King and was a nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2023 for Best Science Fiction novel. His novel, Dissolution, described as an ‘expertly crafted’ puzzle by New Scientist, was released to international critical acclaim.
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