Joseph Moore and his companion Natheer travel to the deserts of Pakistan for an unusual find: arcane carvings have been discovered on the rampart walls of the Ranikot Fort, also known as The Great Wall of Sindh and believed to be the world's largest fortified wall. The enigmatic chief geologist, Martin Van de Castele, leads the team and a military convoy into a mysterious cave where Joseph and Natheer fear creatures of unimaginable terror await.This story is fashioned after Lovecraft, and is a sequel to the events of Masala Nightmares in the collection The Dalziel Files. Brian Craddock is the author of Eucalyptus Goth (Oscillate Wildly Press, 2017). The Dalziel Files (Broken Puppet Books, 2018) is his first collection of short stories, many of which were originally published in Steve Dillon's Things in the Well anthologies (Between the Tracks, Below the Stairs, Behind the Mask, Beneath the Waves).He is also published in Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed (Tor Books, 2015), and Book of the Tribes: a Tribute to Clive Barker's Nightbreed (OzHorrorCon, 2013). His essay on Clive Barker appears in The Body Horror Book (Oscillate Wildly Press, 2017).Brian has also written for the puppet webseries The Hobble & Snitch Show (2015/2016), wherein he directed and performed.In the late 1990s, under the pseudonym Dakanavar, Brian Craddock wrote and illustrated eleven underground comics centred on the Goth subculture in Australia (respectively titled "Crimson: Riot Goth" at 7 issues, "Grave Company", "Caduceus", "Dead/Dead", and "Alida: The Reluctant Goth"), and contributed to several zines and small-press publications.
