The Stones Below
The Stones Below is a middle-grade science fiction/horror novel I am working on, set the 1990s in a fictional village in the Lake District.
When twelve-year-old Mark Owen moves to a new house in the area with his family, he finds himself stalked by a mysterious, faceless figure in the woods. As he tries to settle into his new school, he feels that something is not quite right about the village of Ridden-on-Mere and its healthy populace.
Mark and his new friends soon come to suspect that the answer lies buried below. But the solution to the mysterious events plaguing the village turns out to be even more terrifying than they could have imagined…
I have always felt that there is something inherently haunting about the English landscape and seemingly quiet, remote towns. The Stones Below is highly influenced in this sense by cult British rural horror such as The Wickerman and The Children of the Stones. The novel is also a homage to 90’s YA horror such as the Goosebumps and Point Horror series. In many ways, I see this work as a “British answer” to Stranger Things.
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