Ocean Horror

New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life. The ocean is home to many myths, But some are deadly. . . Seven years ago the Atargatis set off on...

Warrior crews in rusted ships hunt mutated whales and battle toxic sharks in the aquatic wasteland the world has become. It has been eighty years since The Melt, and now the world is a place ruled by nothing but the crashing waves of the sea and the survival instincts of folk made hard by the deadly waters. The scraps of dry land that remain are ruins inhabited by cannibalistic raiders and desperate scavengers, forcing most survivors and their kin to make a life upon a treacherous open ocean teeming with scavengers, marauders, a deadly fish cult, and savage sea monsters. Bard, a harpooner ...

Five college friends. One sailing trip. Fifteen days in open water. And something old waiting underneath. When maritime lawyer David Flynn loads his oldest friends onto his forty-two-foot sloop Second Chances for a routine eight-day passage off the Carolina coast, he has accounted for everything. The provisions are alphabetized. The float plan is filed. The emergency kit is double-stocked. David Flynn has built his life around the conviction that careful men don't get killed. A squall takes the rudder on the second morning. The radio dies an hour later. The Gulf Stream takes them east into ...

High atop a dormant volcano, a team of scientists preserve the last remnants of higher technology. Off the coast of Kauai, a flotilla of survivors must decide whether to return to their island, or make their way to another location, risking pirates and nature on the gamble of safer shores. On the central plateau of the Big Island, a group of ranchers want to rebuild civilization… but to do that, they’ll need to reunite a people scattered across an ocean of stars.

2016 Audible Editor’s Pick 2016 Audible’s Best in Science Fiction The New York Times and USA Today bestselling series An Audible Top 100 Series of All Time More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the...

A tropical paradise. A stranded boat. A feeding frenzy. Captain Luis Delgado knows the most beautiful secret in the Leeward Antilles. But when a catastrophic engine failure leaves his charter boat dead on the reef, the tranquil cove becomes a claustrophobic trap for his fourteen passengers. With the radio dead, the tide rising, and the relentless Caribbean sun beating down, escaping the crippled vessel becomes a ticking clock. But the real nightmare is waiting just beneath the surface. Drawn by blood and trapped by the volcanic rock, an aggressive school of apex predators has turned the ...

An Audie Award finalist The instant New York Times bestseller Oprah’s Book Club Pick Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus Reviews A 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for...

Out in the open ocean, far beyond shipping lanes and rescue routes, something ancient is hunting again. Crandle’s Keep is a remote island refuge—quiet, isolated, and surrounded by deep, uncharted waters. For Jake Crandle, it was supposed to be a sanctuary from the past. For marine biologist Amy Caldwell, it was a temporary research stop to study warming ocean currents. For a handful of others, it was simply another waypoint at sea. None of them knew they had entered a feeding ground. When ships begin vanishing without distress calls, when steel hulls are torn open as if they were paper,...

A week before Lenore Warwick's 21st birthday, she's kidnapped by the brooding and dangerous stranger with cold eyes and a lethal touch, who has been stalking her on San Francisco's fog-shrouded streets. Absolon "Solon" Stavig isn't your average criminal though. He's a centuries-old vampire who's caught between wanting to kill Lenore and wanting to save her.

Off the coast of New Zealand, there's an underwater mining facility 8,000 feet under the ocean. The crew stationed there knows that drowning is the least of their worries at such depths. That's why they panic when a maintenance member goes missing while out on a repair mission. There's something far worse down there than the crushing pressure, the ticking timers on their oxygen tanks, and the everlasting darkness that inhabits such depths. And it's hunting them one by one.

There are no Gods in the trench. Only monsters. When the classified deep sea prototype USS Leviathan (X-241) vanishes near the Laurentian Abyss, the Navy scrambles for answers. Minutes later, the USS Seawolf (SSN-21) records a sonar contact that is colossal, biological, and accelerating. Then the ocean swallows it whole. Team Odin deploys the new ORCA Platoon, a sixteen-operator unit drawn from the most lethal Naval Special Warfare teams on the planet. Their mission takes them into the abyss in DS-RAX Armor, advanced technology engineered by DARPA and the Skunkworks Division at Nidavellir ...

A lonely place to die. At the center of the Pacific Ocean lies Point Nemo—the most remote location on Earth. A place so isolated that the closest humans are astronauts orbiting above it. For decades, it’s been used as a dumping ground for dead satellites. A graveyard in the deep. But something else has been waiting there. When a scientific expedition is sent to investigate a mysterious signal from the ocean floor, they discover something impossible— an intelligence that should not exist. Ancient. Powerful. And awake. Within hours, the world’s superpowers are mobilising. Fleets are ...

"An Ocean Life" is a gripping odyssey brimming with twists in cinematic prose into a harrowing fight for life and self-discovery. "An epic ocean voyage unlike any other" Following years of grappling with financial challenges, Mark at last secures the vital funding required to sustain his ailing company. Filled with a profound sense of relief and newfound optimism, Mark decides to celebrate by treating his family to a long-awaited vacation—a chance to temporarily escape the pressures that have weighed heavily on them for so long. He also yearns to reignite the spark in his marriage. ...

On their honeymoon in Madagascar, a young couple are drawn into the hunt for lost treasure. Their search grabs the attention of a bloodthirsty pirate who intends to seize the riches for himself. The seedy government agents on his trail have their own reasons for wanting it too. And they're all in the path of a creature long thought extinct.

Motion is life. Stillness is a death sentence. Oakley Brandt is an engineer who can calculate the load-bearing capacity of a bridge in his head, but he can’t handle the weight of his own failure. After freezing during his final exams, he takes a berth on the tall ship Spirit of Cadiz, hoping manual labor will silence the doubts in his mind. But the silence that finds him is not the kind that heals. It starts with a fog bank that swallows the horizon. When it lifts, the crew is gone. The Atlantic Ocean has vanished, replaced by a vast, grey sheet of viscous sludge. The stars are distorted....

In 1997, the United States Navy recorded an enormously loud low-frequency underwater sound, originating 3,000 miles away in the abyssal depths of the southern Pacific Ocean. The sound was ultimately determined to be of animal origin, although of a species and gigantic size hitherto unknown to science. It has not been heard again… Until now.

EDITORIAL REVIEW BLOOD SKY expands the real 1977 Operation Prato investigation into a gripping, intelligent horror novel where the terror evolves from spectacle to something far more permanent and disturbing. Ted Lazaris crafts escalating dread with precision, transforming a coastal mystery into a chilling exploration of adaptation, infrastructure, and unseen presence. The result is a cinematic, psychologically unsettling work of documented terror that feels less imagined than uncovered. BLOOD SKY A Documented Terror Inspired by True Events — Operation Prato (1977) Colares, Brazil. “...

EDITORIAL REVIEW THE WHALE THAT HUNTED MEN is a gripping Documented Terror masterpiece that brings the legendary tragedy of the Essex to life with cinematic intensity, emotional depth, and relentless suspense. Blending historical fact, maritime horror, survival drama, and the enduring mystery of the giant whale that destroyed a ship, Ted Lazaris places readers inside one of the most extraordinary real-life ordeals ever recorded. Epic, haunting, and unforgettable, THE WHALE THAT HUNTED MEN is a powerful story of courage, sacrifice, human endurance, and the thin line between hunter and hunted...

Warrior crews in rusted ships hunt mutated whales and battle toxic sharks in the aquatic wasteland the world has become. The Penny Dreadful has fought through treacherous oceans, met many a challenge, and paid a steep price for every victory. Now a new threat has emerged from the depths, and a dark tide known as blackwater begins to cover the seas. A caustic oil slick that moves as fast as any ship, consuming everything in its path, and with it swims a tentacled beast that is not only hunting the leviathans to extinction, but seems intent upon destroying every whaleship and settlement it ...

Something massive is moving beneath the waters of Puget Sound. When disgraced marine biologist Dr. Leah Trask returns to Friday Harbor after a decade in exile, she expects nothing more than routine field research aboard the aging vessel Catalyst. The job is small, the funding is thin, and the work should be quiet. But the ocean has other plans. Strange sonar readings begin appearing near the deep canyons of the Sound. A whale carcass washes ashore marked with enormous suction wounds. Fishing boats vanish in calm water. Divers report shadows moving in the dark far below the trench. Then Leah...