Atomic Coffin

Combines a cold war spy novel with lurking horrors beneath the sea … a creepy, disorientating journey into fear. – Lisa Tuttle * GUARDIAN *
Anning’s ability to create an unusual protagonist and a well-realised mise-en-scène lifts this out of the common run and implies there is much more to come from him. * THE TIMES *
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
Brilliantly original must-read horror. Anning has fused a claustrophobic submarine-set Cold War thriller with a genuinely terrifying Event Horizon-style nightmare, and the result is tonally terrific, a nightmarish descent which will have you clinging to your armchair every single fathom. * GrimDark *
This is a first-rate work…it has pace and ideas, genre thrills combined with philosophical questions. * SCOTSMAN *
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 *
Things don’t get much darker than the depths of the north Atlantic, where most of the action in Benedict Anning’s impressive debut effort, Atomic Coffin takes place…. The icy claustrophobia of the deep-sea setting and the sense of a paranoid world on the brink of nuclear Armageddon are strongly conveyed. * FINANCIAL TIMES *
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

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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