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The Catacombs: A psychological suspense thriller by the new king of horror (World's Scariest Places Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Jeremy Bates (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 3,935 ratings
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Are you a fan of Stephen King and Dean Koontz? If you're looking for something fresh and new, join the millions of readers who have already taken the journey to the World's Scariest Places.

From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes a bone-chilling descent into the tunnels beneath Paris where an unknown evil awaits. AHWA winner for horror. For fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

Paris, France, is known as the City of Lights, a metropolis renowned for romance and beauty. Beneath the bustling streets and cafés, however, exists The Catacombs, a labyrinth of crumbling tunnels filled with six million dead.

When a video camera containing mysterious footage is discovered deep within their depths, a group of friends venture into the tunnels to investigate. But what starts out as a lighthearted adventure takes a turn for the worse when they reach their destination—and stumble upon the evil lurking there.

Praise for Jeremy Bates:

"Old-school horror story reminiscent of Stephen King" ★★★★★

"Best book I've read to date" ★★★★★

"Perfect for Laymon fans!" ★★★★★

"Definitely recommend to all fans of modern horror" ★★★★★

"A master storyteller!" ★★★★★

"I sort of fell into Jeremy Bates by accident, and I'm so glad I did. He's one of my new favorite writers, and I urge everyone to check him out" ★★★★★

"The most chilling book I’ve ever read!" ★★★★★

"Absolutely loved this book" ★★★★★

"Non-stop adrenaline rush from beginning to end" ★★★★★

"Any Stephen King or Dean Koontz fan will love it" ★★★★★

"I was hooked from the first page!" ★★★★★

"Binge worthy!" ★★★★★

"This is one of the best books I have ever read!" ★★★★★

"A very juicy, scary ride" ★★★★★

"Suicide Forest is up there with Joe Hill's Heart Shaped Box" ★★★★★

"Scariest book I've ever read" ★★★★★

"Huge fan of Mr Bates! You won't be disappointed" ★★★★★

"Edge-of-my-seat experience! I felt I was indeed living the horror" ★★★★★

"Page-turner with a twist! I was hanging on to every word!" ★★★★★

"One of the greatest suspense-filled books I have ever read" ★★★★★

"If you enjoy Richard Laymon, you'll love reading Jeremy Bates" ★★★★★

"A true edge-of-your-seat thriller...I couldn't put it down!" ★★★★★

"Startlingly Spooky!" ★★★★★

"A non-stop page-turner!" ★★★★★

"Early Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Jeremy Bates is a must read!" ★★★★★

"As usual Jeremy Bates has done it again... Give him a try, you'll not regret it" ★★★★★

Although in a series, this is a STAND-ALONE novel. For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Richard Laymon, Bentley Little, as well as other horror and mystery authors such as Dan Simmons, Jack Ketchum, Robert McCammon, Brian Keene, Darcy Coates, Amy Cross, Jeff Strand, Ambrose Ibsen, Jeremy Robinson, Nick Cutter, Blake Crouch, Joe Hill, Iain Rob Wright, Jeff Menapace, Matt Shaw, Heather Graham, Jack Kilborn, James Herbert. We hope you enjoy!

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stephen king, dean koontz, steven king, bestseller, horror book, scary book, suspense book, mystery
Jeremy Bates Author Writer Stephen King Dean Koontz

THE CATACOMBS

"Told with an authoritative voice full of heart and insight"—Richard Thomas, Bram Stoker nominated author

Editorial Reviews

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"Bates brings the atmosphere"—Publishers Weekly

"Jeremy Bates writes like a deviant angel I'm glad doesn't live on my shoulder"—Christian Galacar, author of GILCHRIST

"The perfect antidote to a restful night's sleep, The Sleep Experiment is a fast-paced thriller that will keep the pages turning late into the night"—Steven Sayers, author of THE SOUL DWELLER

"Jeremy Bates is a skilled weaver of nightmares"—Ambrose Ibsen, author of THEHAUNTING OF BEACON HILL

"Jeremy Bates knows scary. You're going to have a good time with whatever he writes"—Jeff Menapace, author of BAD GAMES

"A compelling and provocative read. One cannot help but wonder how important sleep really is"—Booklist

"[Bates] is the real deal. He is a bit of a mix of Stephen King and Richard Laymon. You won't regret your purchase"—Amazon Top Contributor

"I keep hearing this author being compared to the likes of Stephen King or Dean Koontz. I think [he] should be known for his OWN style of writing"—Amazon Reviewer

"Will remind readers what chattering teeth sound like"—Kirkus Reviews

"Voracious readers of horror will delightfully consume the contents of Bates's World's Scariest Places books"—BookLife Prize

"Creatively creepy and sure to scare"—The Japan Times

"Thriller fans and readers of Stephen King, Joe Lansdale, and other masters of the art will find much to love"—Midwest Book Review

"An ice-cold thriller full of mystery, suspense, fear"—David Moody, author of HATER and AUTUMN

"I have long been a fan of Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and Frank Peretti and I feel confident that I can now add Jeremy Bates to that list"—Reader Views

"Will delight horror fans who want their novels steeped in psychological suspense as well as action"—Midwest Book Review

"A page-turner in the true sense of the word"—HorrorAddicts

"Will make your skin crawl"—Scream Magazine

"Shocking"—Booklist

"Told with an authoritative voice full of heart and insight"—Richard Thomas, Bram Stoker nominated author

"Grabs and doesn't let go until the end"—Writer's Digest

"A horror writer to watch"—True Review

"Bates offers a truly chilling tale that reminds readers that humans can be the worst type of monster to fear, after all"—BookLife Prize

"Would make a great screenplay!"—Suspense Magazine

"Bates doesn't miss a trick"—Glenn Kleier, New York Times bestselling author

"Bates knows how to creep into his reader's mind and toy around"—Horror Palace

"Something to give you chills before you go to bed"—San Francisco Book Review

"Excellent!"—Andrew Peterson, international bestselling author of FIRST TO KILL

"Spellbinding"—Bestsellersworld

"Reads like a combination of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Clive Barker"—Midwest Book Review

"Invites you to read it in one sitting"—Hellnotes

From the Author

    • Winner, "Reader Views Literary Awards" Horror Novel Award, 2018-2019, for "Mountain of the Dead."
    • Finalist, "Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction" Horror Novella Award, 2017,for "The Mailman."
    • Finalist, "Australian Horror Writers Association" Shadows Award, 2017, for "The Mailman."
    • Winner, "Foreword INDIES" Horror Book of the Year Award Gold Medal, 2016, for "Island of the Dolls."
    • Finalist, "Next Generation Indie Book Awards" Horror Novel Award, 2017, for "Island of the Dolls."
    • Finalist, "The Skoutz Award" German Horror Award, 2017, for "Suicide Forest."
    • Finalist,"Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction" Horror Novella Award, 2016, for "Box of Bones."
    • Finalist, "Australian Horror Writers Association" Shadows Award, 2016, for "Box of Bones."
    • Winner, "Crime Writers of Canada" Arthur Ellis Award/The Lou Allen Memorial Award, 2016,for "Black Canyon."
    • Winner, "Australian Horror Writers Association" Shadows Award, 2015, for "The Catacombs."
    • Winner, "IPPY(Independent Publisher Book Awards)" Bronze Medal/Horror, 2016, for "The Catacombs."
    • Finalist, "Next Generation Indie Book Awards" Horror Novella Award, 2016, for "Black Canyon."
    • Winner, "Reader Views Literary Award" Global Award, 2014-2015, for "Suicide Forest."
    • Honorable Mention, "Reader Views Literary Award" Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Horror Award,2014-2015, for "Suicide Forest."
    • Finalist, "Goodreads Choice Awards" 2015, for "Suicide Forest."
    • Finalist," Australian Horror Writers Association" Shadows Award, 2014, for "Suicide Forest."
    • Finalist, "Foreword INDIES" Horror Book of the Year Award, 2014, for "Suicide Forest."
    • Finalist, "Foreword INDIES" Thriller & Suspense Book of the Year Award,2012, for "White Lies."

    Product details

    • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00U30WSG6
    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ghillinnein Books; 1st edition (February 26, 2015)
    • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 26, 2015
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • File size ‏ : ‎ 1924 KB
    • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
    • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
    • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
    • Print length ‏ : ‎ 363 pages
    • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 099376469X
    • Customer Reviews:
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    USA TODAY and #1 AMAZON bestselling author Jeremy Bates has published more than twenty novels and novellas. They have sold over one million copies, been translated into several languages, and been optioned for film and TV by major studios. Midwest Book Review compares his work to “Stephen King, Joe Lansdale, and other masters of the art.” He is a KDP Select All Star recipient and has won an Australian Shadows Award and a Canadian Arthur Ellis Award. He was also a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book awards decided by readers. His latest novel, THE NO-END HOUSE, is a standalone horror novel of escape room terror in which a pair of volunteers unwittingly bargain for their lives across nine mysterious rooms in an ill-reputed house in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. It will be released by Kensington Publishing in 2025/26. Visit Jeremy's website to receive BLACK CANYON, winner of The Lou Allin Memorial Award.

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    Lauren Laird
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
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    New author for me, always scary, but so glad I tried him. Definitely NOT disappointed! I read incessantly, and to find a book that includes all my favs, history, great research and writing, and the supernatural, well....
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    Danamia
    4.0 out of 5 stars Breathless, Bloody Good Romp
    Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2018
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    When four mostly friends decide to spend the night exploring the catacombs under Paris, they find more death than they bargained for--their own. Veteran cataphile, as catacombs explorers call themselves, Pascal finds a video recorder underground that may hold clues to a mysterious murder. He invites another veteran cataphile, Danièle, as well as a Canadian and American to help him figure out what happened to the woman who left the camera. Their hunt turns deadly when they reach the part of the catacombs where Pascal found the camcorder, and they become the hunted.

    Author Jeremy Bates concocted a wonderfully breathless, thrill-a-minute romp in the kingdom of the dead under Paris. This well-written thriller kept me on the edge of my seat for much of the book. The only hitch in an otherwise flawless presentation was the big reveal of what--or, rather, who--had happened to the camcorder woman and others who vanished in the catacombs. The book still engages after the reveal, and I powered on to find out how it all ended and the strands of story would come together. However, much like the big reveal of the exomorph in Alien, the story loses much of the creeping dread and mysterious atmosphere Bates built up over the previous half to three quarters of the book. Once I knew who the baddie was, the story became less believeable, and the reasoning for past actions a bit contrived and forced.

    That being said, this was a wonderful book for any fan of fast-paced, creeping horror alternating with frenetic, sometimes brutal mindfraks. Bates stocked his thriller with such an intense pace of action, alternating with “breathing pauses” that heighten the overall sense of dread, that I devoured it in one sitting. Finally, he sprinkles the history of the catacombs throughout in such a way that it never bogs the pace down in exposition. In the end, the catacombs are a character of themselves, and they mean to keep what they find. The kingdom of the dead is always open, new members welcome.
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    CLD
    5.0 out of 5 stars I read a sample of this on kindle first
    Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024
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    I love books that take you off the beaten path and keep you hooked till the end - also give interesting insight 👍
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Soft horror
    Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024
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    Soft horror, not too scary. Rich in story and character development. Lovely mischievous young woman, handsome athletic nice guy. A little romance pretty good. I couldn't put it down.
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    glyn
    3.0 out of 5 stars OVER-EXPLORATION OF THE THINGS WE ALL DREAD
    Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2016
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    Some people are natural storytellers. Jeremy Bates is one of them. You know the feeling you get when you start a book and the thrill of realizing that this author is good - the knowledge that you're in good hands and the book will be waiting to draw you back in when you return to it. His raconteur style, dialogue, characters and description are really good BUT... the violence was gratuitous and he tried too hard to instill a sense of horror, graphically describing the zombie-like characters disfigurements, the awful stench of them, their primitive way of life. Once I knew what they were and how they got there, all I felt was a depression, real pity, but not horror. On and on we stumbled, with more violence, and yet more. Since we know from the first which characters are going to die, I personally just felt a pressing weight of inevitability where I found myself only reading on in a hopeless sort of way since there was no hope. I liked all the characters apart from Danielle who was bossy, patronising and insensitive and not at all an attractive personality. The main protagonist Will, was a good guy, but his dreams!... for goodness sake! We had to endure pages of them, in which his dead beloved sister comes through as a vengeful ghost, unfairly accusing him of her death. Does one ever dream of someone you loved dearly who has died, as a parody of a drowned angry spirit? All the characters and often the living dead creatures, become terribly injured, yet they all seem to shake off their deadly wounds - except for the ones who don't make it - and whom we meet in the opening chapter - and continue to toil on, run and crawl through tiny openings, swim underwater and fight as if they had just had eight hours of good sleep and a healthy breakfast! I hate skipping through books but found I couldn't stand the inevitability of the darkness (not scary, just dark), the inevitability and the violence (not scary, just gratuitous) and thus fast forwarded two-thirds of the way through, to get to the end. Yes, Katya's story ended predictably - would have been SUCH a problem for everyone otherwise - and Will's romantic ending didn't seem a good one to my mind, but there you are. In writing horror, it is the inanity of evil that is truly frightening, not trying to bring every element of human fear into one story, e.g. pitch darkness, mutants with no other thought but braining you with the bones of the dead, being set alight, being beaten to death (no spoilers here, this is how the story begins). Perhaps it is a case of becoming immune to violence and darkness when there is so much of it? I will certainly read more of this author - and have already bought a two more of his books on my Kindle - because his writing draws one in so completely. He has the gift of a great raconteur and would love to read a thriller that doesn't involve trying unsuccessfully to scare his readership in an obvious and over exaggerated fashion. I am not sure if 'horror' should be his genre but he's a very good storyteller.
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    Caroline M.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Page turner
    Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2023
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    The book was a page turner. Kept me going but the ending could have been a little better.
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    Laci Novak
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book
    Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2024
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    It arrived in New condition. Thank you.
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    Avedios
    5.0 out of 5 stars Rapid, thrilling & arousing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2023
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    Fantastic read, a real page turner, the detail took me there as if in real life. The kinky bits really excite.
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    Ana Luiza
    3.0 out of 5 stars Gostei, mas ainda poderia ser um pouco melhor do que eu esperava.
    Reviewed in Brazil on July 13, 2020
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    Gostei do livro, mas acho que a trama em si poderia ser um pouco mais requintada (com mais reviravoltas e mais interessante como um todo). Os personagens não são tão cativantes como poderiam ser e eu, particularmente, não me senti atraída por nenhum deles em especial. Mas é uma boa iniciativa e conseguiu me manter na expectativa até o momento da revelação de quem seriam "os antagonistas". É o primeiro livro que leio do autor, mas irei ler outros e ver se gosto do estilo :)
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    Abhinav Sabharwal
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
    Reviewed in India on March 6, 2017
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    Good book quite thrilled to read it kept me hooked from begin to end so I am giving good ratings
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    linnie990
    5.0 out of 5 stars Scary
    Reviewed in Australia on November 18, 2018
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    Great read. Hard to put down, Jeremy sure has s way with words
    Hold your interest from start to finish.
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