“Percy takes the darkest conspiracy theories you can imagine and makes them the stuff of nightmares . . . humankind is held responsible for its irresponsibility, paying the price for all the convenience we take for granted, for our obsession with the digital world . . . the message is effective and scary . . . there’s something undeniably creepy about the thought that your smartphone can possess you. A gory cautionary tale.”

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

“The Dark Net kicked my ass with its deft mash-up of both blackhat hacker culture and black magic. Percy reveals an upgraded, rebooted battle between good versus evil—a fast, fantastic, throat-punch of a read.”

—CHUCK WENDIG, NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF BLACKBIRDS AND ZER0ES

“The Dark Net channels the spirit of your favorite sprawling and epic 1980s horror/thriller novels into a tightly paced, nasty, unrelenting twenty-first century nightmare. An addictive and frightening read.”

—PAUL TREMBLAY, AUTHOR OF A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS AND DISAPPEARANCE AT DEVIL’S ROCK

“Beautifully written, as extravagant as the night sky but way more cool . . . Benjamin Percy’s soft-footed yet industrial-strength imagination, storytelling mastery, deep curious infatuated humanity, and his total willingness to throw himself off one narrative cliff after another. This is horror literature’s bebop, bold, smart, confident in its capacity to redefine its genre from the ground up. Read this book, but take a firm grip on your hat before you start.”

—PETER STRAUB, NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR

Also by Benjamin Percy

The Language of Elk

Refresh, Refresh

The Wilding

Red Moon

The Dead Lands

Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction

The Dark Net

Suicide Woods: Stories

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Devil’s Highway

Year Zero

James Bond: Black Box

THE COMET CYCLE

The Ninth Metal

The Unfamiliar Garden

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