From USA Today and number one Amazon best-selling 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.

Although in a series, this is a stand-alone novel. For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Richard Laymon, and 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, and James Herbert. We hope you enjoy!

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9 hours and 19 minutes
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Jeremy Bates
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Lynn Roberts
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13 December 2019
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English
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Ghillinnein Books
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B082P83Z5H
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	9 hours and 19 minutes
Author	Jeremy Bates
Narrator	Lynn Roberts
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	13 December 2019
Publisher	Ghillinnein Books
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B082P83Z5H
Best Sellers Rank	38,877 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1,250 in Horror Fiction 5,818 in Horror (Books) 26,529 in Teen & Young Adult (Books)

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Claustrophobic

Reviewed in Australia on 18 May 2016

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I have read a few of these books now but this one wasn't my favourite. It was a good story with some of the same great qualities as the others - the slow unfolding of horror and the touches of humour throughout, in particular - but there wasn't really anything new and exciting. I did like the main character and the claustrophobic setting of the catacombs, but I wasn't riveted.

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Ace

Interesting read with a great attention to detail

Reviewed in Australia on 10 July 2015

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Interesting read with a great attention to detail. I could not put the book down and loved the twists and surprises that presented. Well done Jeremy Bates. I will be reading more of your titles.

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Kindle Customer Tricia

Wow

Reviewed in Australia on 1 February 2017

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What a good book to read and what a terrible time they went through. Could hardly put the book down

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Gail Carrie Lander

this had me going, I was not sure to ...

Reviewed in Australia on 9 July 2015

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this had me going, I was not sure to begin with, but once I got into the swing of the story I could not put it down

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Smiley Ni

Dark and creepy, a proper old school thriller horror.

Reviewed in Australia on 5 April 2017

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Bones, lots of them in the cold catacombs, but not just bones, there's life too.
Spelunking explorers discover horrors remain post WWII France.

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linnie990

Scary

Reviewed in Australia on 18 November 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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Jo Kelly

Enjoyed the book

Reviewed in Australia on 3 January 2018

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This is a very good read wasn't expecting the twist in the story but I really liked it. The details were amazing I could picture everything perfectly

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Michelle

Good Suspense

Reviewed in Australia on 9 July 2015

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A real page turner, was a much better read than I had expected. Definitely recommend it.

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Stephen Clynes

A regular urban legend of a hidden community.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2018

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The Catacombs are a network of tunnels beneath Paris which are said to extend more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) and reach depths of 30 meters (100), too deep for phone coverage. Follow 4 characters who go on an underground adventure to explore hidden treasures etc in this hidden world beneath the streets of Paris.

I thought this thriller from Jeremy Bates was okay. The structure of this novel is similar to his previous book, the Suicide Forest and offers the same huge vocabulary that helps make this story such an adult read. Jeremy manages to capture the atmosphere of the catacombs very well indeed when he writes…

I tried to imagine what it would be like to walk alone in utter blackness, with only your hand on the wall to guide you, your mouth dry from dehydration, your throat and lungs burning from the rank air and the countless hours of screaming for help, your feet weeping with blisters, your legs jellied with exhaustion, nothing around you but tunnels and more tunnels, ad infinitum.

Yes, it is clearly very scary being lost in complete darkness within 300 km of tunnels below Paris knowing that nobody can hear you scream. I felt Jeremy explained these fears very well indeed as our 4 characters tried to exit the nightmare they had become trapped within.

The plot of The Catacombs was okay and was a regular urban legend of a hidden community. The main problem I had with The Catacombs was that I read it straight after Suicide Forest. I thought that Suicide Forest was a GOOD 4 star read and in comparison The Catacombs was simply not as good. For me The Catacombs was an okay 3 stars read because it lacked the wonder threaded within the script of the Suicide Forest.

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Ecowitch

Now this is far more like it. Having read and been a let down ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2018

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Now this is far more like it. Having read and been a let down by Bates first helping in the series I wasn't sure about this but I figured he deserved another shot and he pulled it back brilliantly. This isn't a faultless read by any means but at least this time the characters actually try to use their brains and weigh up options rather than charging in all gun-ho and the female characters have a bit of nounce about them and don't just do what they are told, in fact they end up doing a lot of the telling (much more realistic!). I'm not sure I totally liked the ending as it as a little too neat for me but then I do prefer not so happy endings in my horror genre (feel free to all me morbid) but the story was again brilliantly written, fast paced and gripping. I've never favoured an e-book over a proper book so much in my life (and I am both slightly ashamed and slightly proud). I'm looking forward to reading the next installment now.

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Caroline Broderick

Horribly and brilliantly claustrophobic!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2016

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After downloading the freebie 'A Taste of Fear' I thought that Jeremy Bates was a pretty good writer. Fast paced, relatively believable situations and characters, gripping and a good read so I decided to buy this one next and it changed my mind from a pretty good writer to very rapidly becoming my favourite.

The story primarily takes place in the Paris catacombs where the characters are battling the terrain, the fear and occasionally each other. The description of the catacombs is uncomfortable and how he describes a 6'4" man trying to push himself through tiny crevices is horribly claustrophobic. Yes it takes a bit of a strange turn towards the end but, having read other books by Jeremy Bates, I think that's just his style and it definitely works.

One of the best stories I've read in a long time.

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Amberoo1

Brilliant, Creepy nail-biting story.....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2015

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Great book! Keep me hooked from the start. Kept me wanting to know if they would escape alive- fast paced and excting. It reminded me of the film As above so below- very similar in places.
Ive read both books in the series so far and found this one a easier read and although the Japan spooky forest was a good read I preferred this one. What make these stories fascinating to me is that they based in real places! Are the newspaper exerts real?
Keep up the good work Mr Bates and look forward to reading your next book in the series...

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corrine g

Great chilling story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 September 2019

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Finished late last night because I couldn't put it down. Great story very well written i really could feel the cold dark damp tunnels,very chilling and claustrophobic. Definitely going to read more from this very talented author.

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