Benedict Anning is a Surrey-born author and short fiction writer living just outside of Edinburgh with his wonderful cat, Penny. After a stint in creative studies at sixth form, independent exams, and later Ancient History at university, Ben spent three years as a bookseller before moving to the third sector where he now works for a local animal shelter. An artist at heart and fan of all things eerie, Ben has a special love for twisty horror fiction where the setting is a principal character and things just aren't quite right. Atomic Coffin is his first published novel.
If Philip K Dick and Stephen King had a lovechild at the height of Cold War tensions, it would look something like this. -- NICHOLAS BINGE, bestselling author of Ascension This is a cracker! Creepy, claustrophobic and laced with dread, Atomic Coffin is a first-rate horror novel! -- GARETH BROWN, bestselling author of The Book of Doors As if John Hornor Jacobs wrote The Hunt for Red October immediately after watching ‘Event Horizon’, Atomic Coffin is a complex cosmic puzzle of a debut, delivering Cold War spy-thriller pacing aboard a tense, claustrophobic submarine . . . and there’s something so much worse onboard. Fans of SA Barnes' space horror will love this gripping deep-sea adventure. -- ALLY WILKES, acclaimed author of All the White Spaces A tense and claustrophobic horror novel that drips with atmosphere, tension and threat, Atomic Coffin is a Cold War fever dream of spies, submarines and intense, hull-cracking dread . . . a visceral and deeply menacing debut. -- DAVID GOODMAN, award-winning author of A Reluctant Spy With a relentless, eerie rhythm that loops and builds to an otherworldly crescendo, Atomic Coffin is an unfathomably spooky deep-sea horror. -- MK HARDY, author of the acclaimed The Needfire