Subterranean Season

A disgruntled grad student finds a way to get rid of his problems in this "e;creepy, satiric twist on the campus novel"e; with an "e;utterly chilling ending"e; (Publishers Weekly). An International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award Winning Author and a Bram Stoker Award NomineeMassive crowds of adoring fans gather at West Georgia University's football stadium every Saturday to see the mighty Fighting Bobcats. Underneath the stadium, in a dingy office, PhD student Alex Kern toils away, grading undergrads' papers, struggling to pass his own classes, and bemoaning his crumbling romantic relationship. Then one day, he discovers a strange, seemingly bottomless hole. When Alex throws a rock into it, he can't hear it land. And before long, he throws something else into it: a very annoying student. But nothing happens. No missing-person alerts. No investigations. Alex then disposes of a world-renowned Ezra Pound scholar. Still nothing. Everything appears to be fine. Until he makes the mistake of dropping the Fighting Bobcats' star quarterback down the hole . . . "e;Takes on every aspect of campus life with razor-sharp glee, especially the all-too-common elevation of sports over academics, and the unforgiving hierarchy of academia. Alex's metamorphosis, from basically decent to completely unhinged, is both terrifying and fascinating."e; Publishers Weekly