Rudá zem – Nevill Adam (2021)

Not even a million years of evolution has changed our nature or buried the horrors preceding our modern civilization. Ancient rituals, long-forgotten deities, and brutality can resurface at any moment in places we least expect. Kat, a journalist writing about lifestyle, tries to forget the traumas of her past on the beautiful, tranquil shores of South Devon. However, a dark shadow falls over her life when a cave is discovered in nearby Brickburgh, along with extensive remains of ancient people and prehistoric artifacts. Single mother Helene has lost her illusions and, six years ago, her brother Lincoln, who recorded mysterious underground sounds just before his disappearance. Helene's recordings lead her to Brickburgh, to places where, over the course of sixty thousand years, human ancestors brutally murdered each other in extraordinary ways. The walls of the caves still bear depictions of unknown terrifying gods of these people. Amid rumors of drug plantations and the mythical red people, it begins to emerge that those who take too much interest in these remote parts of the world disappear without a trace. In the idyllic countryside, outsiders are not welcome, and beneath its surface, a terrifying power is said to reign. Only a madman would want to confront it, but Kat...