The Burn Line
A Novel
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Pub Date Aug 25 2026 | Archive Date Aug 25 2026
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Description
From the dark and twisted mind behind the podcast sensation The Magnus Archives comes a suffocating, socially charged nightmare that reveals how fear festers in the cracks of everyday life…
Beneath the streets of London, it hungers…
It's the hottest summer on record and the city is suffering. Prices are high, pay is low. And on one fateful morning five travelers find themselves trapped in a tube car deep in the London Underground.
It will change their lives forever.
By the time they leave the train they will be bound together as witnesses to a single horrific event. Something terrible, irreversible, and monstrous. Something hungry.
But they can't remember what it is.
On their own, they each begin to experience strange dissociative events. Time gets lost. Friends disappear. Something stalks them in the shadows. They make an unlikely team, but to remember what they encountered that day on the train, they will have to work together. Because now it's up to them to understand what horror they saw – and stop it in its tracks before it drags everyone else down below.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781464258534 |
| PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 384 |
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Featured Reviews
Absolutely chilling and masterfully written. Jonathan Sims has a way of building tension that is both unsettling and impossible to put down. A must-read for fans of atmospheric horror.
Moira F, Reviewer
Jonathan Sims has a real talent for creating worlds that feel unsettling long before the horror fully reveals itself, and The Burn Line is no exception. The slow-building tension kept me hooked, but what really stood out was how much time the book spends exploring the people caught in the middle of it all.
I especially appreciated that the horror never came at the expense of the characters. Even as the stakes continue to escalate, the emotional core stays front and center, making the scares hit that much harder. This is the kind of horror that sticks with you because of how invested you become in the people, not just the monsters.
Read if you like: character-driven horror, post-apocalyptic settings, slow-burn suspense, and stories where the atmosphere is just as memorable as the scares.
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