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• The Fisherman

  Langan, John (John Paul),

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  Winner of the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, this Lovecraftian tale follows two widowers, Abe and Dan, as they embark on a fishing trip to Dutchman's Creek. This is a cosmic horror story about grief, dread, and a dark, ancient evil.

• Whalefall

  a Novel

  Kraus, Daniel, 1975-

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  This is a fast-paced survival thriller/family drama about a man searching for his father's remains off the coast of Monastery Beach. The stakes get higher when our protagonist is swallowed by a sperm whale, giving him only one hour until his oxygen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Deep

  Cutter, Nick,

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  From the bestselling author of "The Troop", this novel follows a crew as they descend into the depths of the ocean to investigate an underwater research lab. Be warned: Nick Cutter's books are not for the faint of heart!

• Into the Drowning Deep

  Grant, Mira,

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  Written by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) this suspenseful horror-thriller has killer mermaids and a splash of gore. It follows a dive crew as they investigate a sunken ship, discovering unimaginable horrors in the process.

• Jaws

  Benchley, Peter

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  Before the blockbuster Spielberg film, there was Jaws by Peter Benchley. Packed with suspense, this novel tells the story of a great white shark who is preying on residents of a small resort town, and the three men who attempt to kill it.

• The Terror

  a Novel

  Simmons, Dan, 1948-

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  In this fictionalized account of Capt. Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to the Arctic, Franklin and his crew face starvation, illness, mutiny, and cannibalism, all while being stalked by a relentless, unseen predator.

• The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"

  Being An Account of Their Adventures in the Strange Places of the Earth, After the Foundering of the Good Ship Glen Carrig Through Striking Upon a Hidden Rock in the Unknown Seas to the Southward, as Told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to His Son James Winterstraw, in the Year 1757, and by Him Committed Very Properly and Legibly to Manuscript

  Hodgson, William Hope, 1877-1918

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  First published in 1907, this novel is presented as a true account of a passenger about the Glen Carrig, a ship lost at sea when it struck a hidden rock.

• From Below

  Coates, Darcy,

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  A dive team explores a sunken ship hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. With limited oxygen and the ship slowly closing in around them, the dive team will have to fight their way free of the unspeakable horror now desperate to claim them.

• Sphere

  Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008

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  A tightly-plotted sci-fi thriller from the bestselling author of Jurassic Park.

• Our Wives Under the Sea

  Armfield, Julia,

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  A Lambda finalist, this debut horror novel follows a married lesbian couple who become distant after one of them returns from a disastrous deep sea mission. Described as poetic, heartbreaking and devastating, this story explores grief, love, loss,…Read moreRead more of this annotation