Beneath the New Soil

Haunted by a devastating lawsuit against an agrochemical giant, a disgraced farmer seizes a chance to vanish into an archaeological dig. But when the team unearths a mass grave and members begin dying in grotesque, inexplicable ways, his desperate hope for a new life twists into a paranoid obsession. Told with the claustrophobic, yearning interiority of Caroline Kepnes, the true horror is not an ancient curse, but the modern poison we refuse to see—and the realization that escaping the past is a fantasy more dangerous than any ghost.