The Burn Line

By Jonathan Sims

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464258538
• ISBN13: 9781464258534
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Unique vampire story

A delightful multi-character based monster story, in the spirit of Summer of Night by Dan Simmons, and the second half of Stephen King's It. A unique monster novel that is tense from the start We follow the points of view of each of the survivors from an incident on the London Underground. An unlikely group of people to work together, they will have to get along to figure out what happened and how to prevent it from happening again. Like his other novel 'Thirteen Storeys' Sims writes each chapter from the perspective of a different character, and the entire novel focuses on one plot. Unlike 'Thirteen Storeys' the chapters are not self contained and the characters actively interact. Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read the eARC.