Oracle

'Totally, brilliantly original.' Stephen King, on Hex

'Echo is a compulsive page turner mixing supernatural survival horror and pulp adventure' Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts

'Hallucinatory, eerie and terrifying' Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, on Echo

'Echo is a haunting contribution to the literature of folk horror' Ramsey Campbell

A supernatural thriller where an omen from our past threatens the return of ancient forces that will change the world forever.

On a foggy winter morning Luca Wolf and Emma Reich discover an eighteenth-century sailing ship stranded on a barren flower field, the name written on its side: Oracle.

Emma, unable to resist, enters the hatch on the tilted deck. The ship's bell begins to toll and no one sees her ever again.

Soon, eleven people have disappeared, Luca and his mother have been absconded by a clandestine government agency which has questions, no answers, and are determined to uncover the ship's secrets before a media storm erupts.

But as they force Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult with a strange history and a healthy dislike of authority, to unravel the mystery, the Oracle is revealed to be a harbinger of an ancient doom awakened underneath the sea.

What follows is a maelstrom of international intrigue, history, humanity's relationship with climate and disease, and pure terror as they come face to face with an open doorway to the apocalypse.

Praise for Thomas Olde Heuvelt

'Creepy and gripping and original' - George R.R. Martin, on Hex

'Reminiscent of vintage Stephen King' John Connolly

'A great writer, the next genre superstar' Paul Cornell, on Hex

'Takes the horror/thriller genre to a whole new level' Sarah Lotz, on Hex

"Horrific, poignant, creepy, brilliantly written' Jeff VanderMeer, on Echo

'Equal parts Stephen King and The Cabin in the Woods' SFX