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a DUNHAMS MANOR PRESS EXCLUSIVE from the author of THE SPECTACLE OF THE VOID. The world has moved on and left Cortland behind. His career as an academic has fizzled out, his fiancé is dead, and he remains haunted by the notion that it’s his fault. When a consulting firm…

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Like with Tim Curran’s The Underdewlling, above, Eyes in the Dust leans into the cosmic with its approach to what’s below our feet.

A giant borehole has been dug in an unnamed, developing world country revealing an inexplicable anomaly. Our story, though, focuses on a single individual’s perspective. Cortland—the archetypal faceless manager—comes face to face with the nihilistic reality of what lurks miles beneath the soil, and the horror is almost too much to bear.

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