5.0 (1 rating)
What Stalks the Deep
The next novella in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America, from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author T. Kingfisher. Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Stephen Graham Jones.
Alex Easton does not want to visit America.
They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a reputation for being haunted.
But when their old friend Dr. Denton summons them to help find his lost cousin—who went missing in that very mine—well, sometimes a sworn soldier has to do what a sworn soldier has to do...
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781250354921
Reader Reviews
5.0
1 rating
Read Letter D.
Feb 8, 2026
While this one felt more firmly in the dark fantasy realm than horror (even the gothic slowburn of the rest of this series) it was a really fun read.
I love Easton and their brand of story-telling. Their take on an adventure to America is perfect, though maybe Guam would have been nicer ;)
The sequences of traversing the cave were perfectly claustrophobia inducing (even if Easton is NOT claustrophobic in the slightest) and I loved the strange biology behind Fragment and his wholeness.
Maybe not really horror, but totally a 5 star read.
I love Easton and their brand of story-telling. Their take on an adventure to America is perfect, though maybe Guam would have been nicer ;)
The sequences of traversing the cave were perfectly claustrophobia inducing (even if Easton is NOT claustrophobic in the slightest) and I loved the strange biology behind Fragment and his wholeness.
Maybe not really horror, but totally a 5 star read.