It Sleeps Below

A Cosmic Horror Novel

The line between real and imaginary is a dark blur.

After thirteen-year-old Samantha Morris almost drowned in her parents' lake, the nightmares that followed paled in comparison to the real-life horrors of watching her mother descend into madness.

By the end of the summer, Kate Morris disappeared without a trace.

Now an adult, Samantha is faced with another unexpected loss in her partner Ellie as well as the return of the nightmares.

Only now, they're bleeding into her waking hours, forcing her to question her own sanity, and they're only getting worse.

As the line between real and imaginary continue to blur, physical manifestations of her dreams beg the question: is she losing her mind like her mother, or is she being targeted by something far more sinister?

Contains mature themes.

©2025 William F. Gray (P)2026 Tantor Media

Slow start but good ending payoff

I really liked the premise of this story. The largest gripe I had was that it seemed like it took forever to get to the point and once you got there, there just wasn’t much back story to explain anything. Overall not a bad story but need to get to the point and explain more details. I still would recommend and the narrator was pretty good.