Why You'll Love This
A camel with a dozen eyes wandering down Main Street is just the opening act — it gets significantly stranger from there.
- Great if you want: creature-horror meets small-town thriller in an isolated setting
- The experience: fast, tense, and escalating — Robinson doesn't let tension settle
- The writing: Robinson leans into visceral imagery and sharp, propulsive scene construction
- Skip if: body-horror grotesquerie isn't something you enjoy in print
About This Book
In the frozen isolation of Raven's Rest, Alaska, a camel with a dozen eyes wandering down Main Street is just the beginning of Sheriff Colton Graves's problems. Jeremy Robinson's Artifact drops readers into a claustrophobic world where a Cold War bunker has been repurposed for cutting-edge AI and bioprinting research—and where something that should never have existed is now loose. The stakes are immediate and visceral, but what keeps the tension coiled tight is the human element: a sheriff who chose quiet for a reason, a town with more secrets than residents, and a threat that keeps redefining the boundaries of what "monster" means.
Robinson writes creature horror with a precise, almost clinical eye that makes the grotesque feel genuinely unsettling rather than campy. The pacing is disciplined—slow enough to build dread, fast enough to prevent the reader from catching a breath at the wrong moment. The Alaskan setting does real work here, functioning less as backdrop and more as a trap. For readers who want their horror grounded in character and place before it goes somewhere dark and strange, Artifact delivers exactly that.
