The Long Totality

The eclipse was supposed to last four minutes.

When totality falls over the small Yorkshire town of Thorncombe, nobody expects anything more dramatic than a few minutes of wonder under a blackened sun. But four minutes come and go, and the sun does not return.

As the cold deepens and the dark stretches into hours, then days, the townsfolk of Thorncombe realise they are not alone in it. Something has been sleeping beneath the old lead-mine workings on Raw Head for longer than anyone can remember — and the endless night has finally let it wake.

Paramedic Mo Hale will do anything to keep her son safe. Sergeant Daniel Pryce is the only law left standing between order and panic. Astrophysicist Iris Okafor has the data but no explanation. As the town splits between those who want to run and those who want to hold the line, they'll have to use everything they have — torchlight, folklore, and each other — to survive nine days without a sunrise, and whatever has been waiting, patiently, in the dark below.

A British horror thriller about grief, community, and the things that come out when the light goes away for good.

📖 171 pages