Atomic Coffin
- Published: 25 June 2026
- ISBN: 9781529970111
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
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, author of Ascension
This is a cracker! Creepy, claustrophobic and laced with dread, Atomic Coffin is a first-rate horror novel!
GARETH BROWN, 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, 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, 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 Needfire
The Shining. In a nuclear submarine. On the edge of the continental shelf at the height of the Cold War, with occasional reference to cats. You can’t make this shit up. Fortunately, Benedict Anning can. And he does a damn good job of it.
PETER WATTS, author of Blindsight
Awash with crushing terror and claustrophobia, and the dread of physical and psychological isolation, Atomic Coffin is an excellent high-pressure tale of cosmic horror.
TIM LEBBON, author of Secret Lives of The Dead
Claustrophobia-inducing . . . Atomic Coffin feels like an underwater version of Event Horizon, with a little bit of Solaris mixed in . . . a sunken treasure chest of delights.
SFX
Combines a cold war spy novel with lurking horrors beneath the sea . . . a creepy, disorientating journey into fear.
Lisa Tuttle, GUARDIAN