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The Thing Below
A Creature Feature
2021
First Published
4.14
Average Rating
16
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The following mss has been extracted and collated from the letters of David Marr Henderson, Chief Engineer, Imperial Lighthouse Service, written while in the employ of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, Shanghai, 1879. Henderson has been tasked with building a remote island lighthouse in a politically sensitive spot. Time is of the essence but something fights his every move. Something monstrous. Something BELOW.

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William Meikle
William Meikle
Author · 112 books

I'm a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with more than twenty five novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. My work has appeared in a number of professional anthologies and I have recent short story sales to NATURE Futures, Penumbra, Read Short Fiction and Buzzy Mag. When I'm not writing I play guitar, drink beer and dream of fortune and glory. For full details see my website at https://www.williammeikle.com

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