A quiet exile. A buried secret. A nightmare that refuses to stay dead. Reporter Jim Bell never wanted to end up in Milan, Michigan. Banished from his newsroom after a mistake that cost him his job and his reputation, Jim expects nothing more than a sleepy exile - a backwater town where the most exciting headline is about a lost pet. But Milan has its own secrets, and one of them has been waiting beneath the earth for decades. What begins as a routine assignment turns violent when Jim stumbles onto a gruesome scene and a killer desperate to protect his sins. The deeper Jim digs, the more he uncovers a horrifying truth: someone in town has been feeding the darkness - and what lurks below is no longer content to stay buried. As bodies begin to surface and terror spreads through the community, Jim finds himself trapped between a murderer who thinks he controls the nightmare and a creature that answers to no one. The town is running out of time, and Jim must choose: expose the human evil that started this or face the inhuman terror that threatens to finish it. Set against the eerie backdrop of rural Michigan, What Lurks Below - It Watches From the Dark blends the atmosphere of small-town mystery with the relentless tension of survival horror. Perfect for readers who enjoy chilling creature features, morally complex characters, and slow-burn dread that builds to a heart-pounding conclusion.