Chasm

Edmonville

An ordinary town full of ordinary citizens going about their everyday business.

Then the earth tremor hits. Glass shatters, concrete crumbles, buildings fracture and collapse as everything disappears beneath choking clouds of dust.

The few shell-shocked survivors emerge to be met with a terrifying, impossible sight. Most of Edmonville has disappeared into an enormous crevasse; the semi-demolished buildings which remain are perched or a series of peaks, crags and pillars of stone – many of them separated from each other by hundreds of feet, and a perilous, bottomless gulf below.

Without electricity, heating or water, the few remaining citizens of Edmonville wait for rescue – which doesn't come. As starvation threatens, the best and the worst of human nature come to the fore in the struggle for survival. Their only hope lies in their being able to make contact with one another.

Then, one by one, people start to disappear without trace...

What exactly has happened to Edmonville? And who – or what – lurks in the hideous Chasm below? The macabre imaginative genius of Stephen Laws is at its best in this phenomenal tale of an ordinary town caught up in extraordinary circumstances.