THE GATE

by Anthony Gardner

In the vast, unforgiving wilderness of the Grand Canyon, four friends stumble upon a secret that should have stayed buried. Seeking shelter from a sudden storm, they descend into an ancient cave where they discover a forgotten room—carved with symbols older than time itself. Among the cryptic artifacts, they find something far darker than they could ever a stone circle, a gateway to another world.


As the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur, they are drawn into a twisted, alien society that exists far beyond their understanding. Some are welcomed as royalty, others captured for horrific experiments. The cave itself becomes a prison, haunted by strange forces that claw at their sanity.

280 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 12, 2024

About the author

Anthony Gardner spent his early life between in England and Ireland, but has lived in London for most of his adult life. As soon as he started reading books, he wanted to write them - but, realising that this would be a difficult way to earn a living, he embarked on a career in journalism, with his weekends set aside for what he regarded as his real writing. As a magazine journalist he has been deputy editor of Harpers & Queen and editor of the Royal Society of Literature Review, and has written for the Sunday Times Magazine, the Irish Times Magazine and Architectural Digest among many others. His first novel, The Rivers of Heaven, was partly inspired by Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, and involves a newborn child remembering its existence before it arrived on earth. His second, Fox, is very different - a fast-moving satirical thriller about the surveillance society involving unscrupulous politicians and urban foxes