Hell Below Zero

by K.G. McAbee

Lake Vostok, Antarctica. Buried under miles of glacier for thirty million years, it’s never been seen, or contaminated, by humans. But when a drilling team brings up core samples of the pristine water, an ancient being trapped for millennia is released. The creature is deadly. The creature is hungry. Good thing the creature is microscopic. But it won’t be for long…

A team of scruffy drillers. A coterie of scientists. A newly-arrived doctor with a secret agenda. An engineer/handyman who may well be the key. But what can any of them do, trapped at the bottom of the earth and surrounded by ice and cold and approaching months of darkness? Who will survive in this Hell Below Zero?

140 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 21, 2025

About the author

K.G. McAbee has had a whole bunch of books and well over a hundred short stories published, and she considers some of them quite readable. She writes steampunk, fantasy, science fiction, horror, pulp, Westerns and creature horror. As they say: Write what you know. She’s a member of International Thriller Writers, The Heinlein Society and the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.

If you’re into stories with talking trucks, snide demons, cursed gadgets, sarcastic sidekicks—so many sarcastic sidekicks—rampaging gorgonopsids, haunted mesas, and cabbages with subversive agendas, you’ll probably survive her books. And if you’re into Lovecraft, she’s written more Cthulhu stories for various anthologies than you can shake a stick at.

Fair warning: do NOT shake a stick at Cthulhu, especially if you value your immortal soul.

For more information, or just to chat, feel free to email her: kgmcabee@gmail.com

Check out her Linktree: https://linktr.ee/kgmwriter

And she has a lot of short fiction and the occasional rant at Substack:

https://reamsofdreams.substack.com/