The Fossil single work   short story   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Fossil
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'Klaus and Doris have just made the discovery of their lives – a complete Neanderthal skeleton buried in a newly opened sinkhole. But on removing it, something else tumbles free. Something that switches on, and then calls home.

'Soon the owners are coming back, and nothing will stop their ruthless search for their lost prize. Gruesome corpses begin to pile up, and Detective Ed Heisner of the Berlin Police is assigned to a case like nothing he has ever experienced before in his life. Heisner must stay one step ahead of a group of secretive Special Forces soldiers also tracking the strange device, while trying to find an unearthly group of killers that are torturing, burning, and obliterating their victims all the way across the city.

'THE FOSSIL is a time jumping detective novella where humans soon find that time can be the greatest weapon of all.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon SNAFU : An Anthology of Military Horror Amanda J. Spedding (editor), Geoff Brown (editor), Bendigo : Cohesion Press , 2014 9437076 2014 anthology short story

    'War is Hell…

    'Soldiers fight to survive.

    'They fight each other, and they fight the demons inside.

    'Sometimes, they fight real monsters.

    'SNAFU collects stories of ancient myths, time travellers, horrors in the old west…

    and the soldiers who fight them.

    'Featuring some of the best writers working in the field today.

    'Jonathan Maberry, Weston Ochse, Greig Beck and James A Moore lead the way, with a contingent of emerging authors to back them up.

    'Fight or die.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

         Bendigo : Cohesion Press , 2014
    • Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: Severed Press , 2019 .
      image of person or book cover 7253602319328276411.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 132p.p.
      Edition info: Expanded ed.
      Note/s:
      • Editor's note: THE FOSSIL first appeared in SNAFU No.1 (2014) as a short story. Due to numerous requests, it has now been expanded and released here in its complete, stand-alone novella form.
      ISBN: 9781925840605, 1925840603
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Last amended 11 Aug 2023 13:40:10
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  • Berlin,
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    Germany,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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