1862: Project Tempest

By C J Halbard

Finalist in the 2019-20 Australian Shadows Awards. Given by the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) for "the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian within the calendar year."
 

New Zealand, 1862: love meets Lovecraft at the end of the earth.  

 

He's been sent to investigate the wreck of a mysterious expedition ship off the wild coast of New Zealand. But the locals are strange, and the explorers driven insane. There's one hope he still holds dear, a long-hoped-for reunion with the final survivor, yet that connection proves the most twisted and troubling of all.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Man on Fire
• Release date: Feb 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9780473512095

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