The Great Big Thing Crawling All Over Me

People have been disappearing in the Cumbrian Lake District. Like 16-year-old Lydia Dove. Most people shake their heads at the news and go on with their lives. But Sean can’t ignore them. He aggregates stories on an anonymous website, corresponds with paranoid strangers, worries his friends. Hunts for clues in person in the houses of victims and abandoned industrial estates. He couldn’t tell you why he cares so much, or what he thinks he’ll find. But something has been preparing him for it all his life.

"a savage, aching and intoxicating work, equal doses transcendent and traumatizing — uncanny britbox kitchen sink psychodrama meets sicko horror extremism's logical absolute. a homespun, almost mockingly 'cosy' mystery that cheerfully descends into something more punishing — and, ultimately, human — than straight up bloodshed. [the author] leads the reader like a will o' wisp into a raw, uncomfortable and unforgiving exploration of obsession, intimacy, abuse and the extreme outer limits of the human body and soul. read it." – Rudy Johnson, Misery Tourism

CW: extreme violence, gore, sexual violence & transgressive content

featuring cover artwork by Idiomenon & logo by Ash Vestal