Nero's Nile

Name: Nero's Nile
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ISBN: 9781068477348

✍️ Rowan O'Neill

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🏛 Old World Publishing 📅 2026 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781068477348

📝 Description: Nero's Nile

Nero's Nile weaves together two parallel narratives set during the reign of Emperor Nero (37-68 AD): The Emperor's rise and fall in Rome, and an expedition he ordered to discover the source of the River Nile.

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Rowan O'Neill's Nero's Nile delivers a chilling historical journey by intertwining the suffocating, paranoia-fueled halls of imperial Rome with the vast, unforgiving expanses of an ill-fated river expedition. The book builds a slow-burning atmosphere of dread, capturing the psychological weight of unchecked power alongside the quiet terror of the natural world pressing in on fragile human endeavors. Rather than relying on cheap shocks, the narrative aims for a creeping, existential unease born from isolation and madness under a blistering sun. It will suit readers who enjoy atmospheric, slow-paced historical horror steeped in dread and psychological tension.

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Horror Reads editorial team

Rowan O'Neill's Nero's Nile delivers a chilling historical journey by intertwining the suffocating, paranoia-fueled halls of imperial Rome with the vast, unforgiving expanses of an ill-fated river expedition. The book builds a slow-burning atmosphere of dread, capturing the psychological weight of unchecked power alongside the quiet terror of the natural world pressing in on fragile human endeavors. Rather than relying on cheap shocks, the narrative aims for a creeping, existential unease born from isolation and madness under a blistering sun. It will suit readers who enjoy atmospheric, slow-paced historical horror steeped in dread and psychological tension.