Occultober Day 5: Irkalla by John Triptych

Occultober Day 5: Irkalla by John Triptych

I have always found caves to be a great location for spooky literature. They’re dark, they’re claustrophobic, they’re a little bit alien, and those inside of them are isolated from the world at large. Everything is just a little bit worse when your hundreds of feet underground and can’t easily get back to civilization.

 

In Irkalla, four cave divers exploring a new and elaborate cave system in the Philippines stumble into John Triptych’s version of a threatened zombie apocalypse. The problem begins with a billionaire industrialist with non-existent ethics who is funding a search for a cure for cancer. He has to do this in secret because he is already in legal trouble all over the globe for his gene and DNA manipulations. He has been creating a monster to test his cures on and—you guessed it—the monster has escaped. What’s worse, the monster has infected humans with a mutant form of rabies that has had the unfortunate side-effect of turning them into aggressive “zombies” who can infect others.

 

The cave divers find themselves in the middle of all of this when they stumble upon both the monster and some infected while exploring the cave network. The group was often frustrating as they made some truly terrible decisions but that is often par for the course in this sort of novel. It certainly breeds a lot of tension as the plot winds its way toward the conclusion.

 

This book is free on Kindle Unlimited.

 

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