Cruise of the Damned

De: Chris Hilmi

Narrado por: Jonathan Tailor-Bird

What would you do if you were given a once in a lifetime offer?

What if that offer had no apparent catches and wouldn’t cost you anything?

Would you take it?

That’s the choice James and Anna Blackburn were about to be given as they waited in the cruise liner boarding queue with their four year old son. This was their first ever cruise, and last big holiday before Liam started school.

Above the noise in the terminal, a voice calls their names. As James replies, a steward in old fashioned uniform offers them the opportunity to swap their cabin on their modern cruise liner to a full family suite on a steamship. With no apparent hidden catches, and no additional costs, James is eager to take up the swap. Seeing the excitement on her husband’s face, and against her better judgement, Anna agrees to the change.

But, unknown to them, the Rosa Regina had a grisly past. Unexplained deaths during construction had imbued the ship with an unquenchable thirst that grew and spread, infecting any other vessel she came across. She became a predator, a soul hunter, red, foul smelling mists carrying her venom, protecting the ship and her hellish brood.

From the moment the family set foot on the steamship, Anna knows they made the wrong decision. On their first night, two seemingly unrelated events, in their cabin and on the way to the dining room, start a chain of events that grow in terror as the ship and her crew begin to show their true colours.

As events on the ship intensify, the family’s only hope of escape lies with Edward Williams, a member of the crew.

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