Atomic Coffin by Benedict Anning - ISBN: 9780857508898
Paperback
Cold War spycraft meets cosmic horror beneath the crushing waves.
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Atomic Coffin

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    13 October 2026

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Summary

Set in the bowels of a nuclear submarine during the final decade of the Cold War, a page-turning, mind-expanding, heart-in-mouth cosmic horror that begins like a Le Carre spy thriller and evolves into the literary lovechild of The Hunt for Red October and Event Horizon.

“Combines a cold war spy novel with lurking horrors beneath the sea … a creepy, disorientating journey into fear.” - Lisa Tuttle, GUARDIAN

“Feels like an underwater version of Eve…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780857508898
ISBN-10:085750889X
Author:Benedict Anning
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Bantam Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:13 October 2026
Weight:386g
Dimensions:234mm x 155mm x 24mm
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Critics Review

Combines a cold war spy novel with lurking horrors beneath the sea … a creepy, disorientating journey into fear. – Lisa Tuttle * GUARDIAN *
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
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 *
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
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 *

About The Author

Benedict Anning

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.

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