By the pioneering queen of Arabic gothic horror, bestselling author of the Lashin series, and winner of the iRead Bestselling Author Award. In the desolate expanse of Egypt’s far south, where the shifting desert sands swallow dreams and voices alike, the boundary between humanity and nature begins to disintegrate. When a mysterious, ravenous outbreak sweeps through the region, a group of stranded strangers is forced into a brutal struggle for survival against a landscape turning violently against its own laws. As panic rises and the masks of civilization fall away, they soon realize that the true pestilence is not the biological threat outside, but the primal beast lurking within their own souls. In The Gnawing, Sherine Hanaei delivers a viscerally chilling, philosophically profound psychological horror novel. Written in razor-sharp, atmospheric prose, it asks a devastating question: what remains of our humanity when predation becomes the only language of survival?