The Night That Finds Us All

De: John Hornor Jacobs

Narrado por: Brittany Pressley

A troubled sailor. A hundred-year-old sailboat. An ancient curse. Welcome to award-winning author John Hornor Jacobs’ nautical nightmare.

It begins and ends as always, with the sea.

Sam Vines is struggling. Her boat is up on the hard and she doesn’t have enough money to get her back in the water. Turns out the snorkelers and the scubadivers are looking for the ultra-luxury boating experience, not the single-handed, rarely sober, snarky stylings of sailboat captain Samantha Vines. So it’s a good thing when her former crewmate Loick asks her to help deliver a massive, hundred-year-old sailboat from Seattle to England. Sam is the only one who can handle the ship’s engine, and did Loick mention that the money is good? It’s very good.

The Blackwatch is a huge boat. An ancient boat. It’s also probably (definitely) haunted.

Sam’s alcohol withdrawal (sobriety is important at sea) has her doubting her senses, but when one crewmate disappears and another has a gruesome accident, she knows that this simple delivery job has spiraled into something sinister.

By turns terrifying, darkly funny, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, The Night That Finds Us All is a seductive, nautical nightmare.

©2025 John Hornor Jacobs (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Nerve-rattling maritime horror . . . [with] enough surprises to make even seasoned horror fans jump. This delivers the goods.”—Publishers Weekly

“Sam’s flawed but sympathetic character and conversational narration will draw readers in quickly, while Jacobs’ effortless world building layers in the necessary nautical details and ship’s haunted history without sacrificing the compelling pace. . . Awash in dread, this nightmarish story of survival is an easy handsell to those who enjoy nautical horror like Ally Wilkes' Where the Dead Wait (2023), a space-bound counterpart like S. A. Barnes’ Dead Silence (2022), and survival horror in the vein of Jenny Kiefer’s This Wretched Valley (2024).”—Booklist

“[A] revelatory experience, steeped in otherworldly horror, tragedy, and grim humor. . . Jacobs’s writing is the noise of wind in sails and the strained creaking of taut ropes, perfect for the novel’s setting. Rich descriptions, horrifying mysteries, and well-developed characters are additional treasures of this sea yarn. . . Jacobs’s haunting novel combines the thrill of nautical adventure with spine-tingling cosmic horror and will have excellent appeal for a wide-ranging audience, with read-alikes including Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant, This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer, and The Deep by Nick Cutter.”—Library Journal

Good stuff, as expected

Another great offering from the author of A Lush and Seething Hell (one of the GOAT works of modern horror imo). I felt like the pacing was a bit off - there were parts that meandered and other parts that breezed by too quickly - but overall The Night That Finds Us All has some wonderful imagery and thoughtful prose that make it one of the best horror novels of 2025, and a must-read for fans of cosmic horror.