Ocean Horror

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...

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.

"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. ...

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.

Rachel Day lives between two worlds, yet belongs to neither. Since childhood, she has been a bridge between the living and the dead—comforting some, closing the wounds of others. But she has never encountered a spirit so consumed by rage, so intent on dragging her into the abyss with it. After an accidental contact during the dismantling of a spiritualist fraud, Rachel is marked: she now carries a presence within her that whispers her darkest memories and threatens to devour her from the inside out. Desperate, she turns to the only man who has achieved the impossible: silencing the dead. ...

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers - men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.

This audiobook contains the first four audiobooks of the Tide series, filled with post-apocalyptic action, suspense, and intrigue. A devastating bioweapon will change the face and fate of humanity as we know it.

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.

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.

The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare, is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary worthy of his genius.

All Kath Castle cares about is making the latest payment on her beloved boat, a salvager named DADDY'S GIRL, and not falling back into a bottle of vodka. But when she and her all-female crew answer a mysterious distress call during a tropical storm, they stumble across an abandoned yacht worth millions. It seems like a dream come true, the Lotto, the Big Ticket to all their dreams... Until they discover what's waiting for them inside the ship... DERELICT A horror novella by Todd Travis

They survived the storm. They won't survive what came back from the water. Jess is filming the perfect luxury vacation in the Florida Keys for her followers—a private yacht, a handsome boyfriend, and an endless turquoise sea. But when a freak storm capsizes their vessel, the idyllic dream becomes a desperate nightmare. Adrift on a tiny life raft, the six survivors are pushed to the brink by dehydration, exposure, and their own fracturing sanity. But the horrors of the open ocean are nothing compared to what's in it. When one of their own is lost to the waves and then miraculously returned...

** new version *** An ancient evil stirs in the darkness. Marine biologist Kate Morrison came to Dead Reef to study coral formations. She found something studying her instead. The local fishermen have stories about the blood tides—when the water runs red and boats don't come back. Kate thought they were just superstitions until the attacks began. Something massive is rising from the deepest trenches around the reef, something that's been evolving in isolation for over a century. It's not just hunting. It's learning. Each attack brings the creature closer to understanding human behavior, ...

Captain Ray Brunner cherishes the salt-crusted silence of the open water, a sanctuary from the world. But his sanctuary is violated when a group of rowdy, entitled college students step aboard his whale-watching vessel, the Jersey Blue. Their only interest in the ocean is as a backdrop for their drunken escapades, and their disrespect for the sea is a palpable insult. A single, reckless act of drunken arrogance shatters the ocean's peace. A monstrous thud echoes through the hull as the students' carelessness leads to a senseless and unforgivable tragedy—the death of a baby whale. Their ...

The thrill of the chase turns into a voyage of damnation. Captain Vorlag and his hardened pirates aboard the Sea Serpent are masters of the crimson tide, hunting for treasure. But when their relentless pursuit sails them into an eerie, unnatural calm, the familiar ocean whispers of an ancient dread. The hunt is over. Something else is hunting them. From the crushing abyssal depths, an unimaginable horror awakens. A creature of countless teeth and insatiable hunger begins its assault, turning their mighty vessel into a slaughterhouse. Trapped miles from land, under a sky that weeps blood, ...

The great heatwave of 1916 has the East Coast in its suffocating grip. For those fleeing the city, the cool, blue Atlantic of the Jersey Shore is a promised oasis. But paradise is ripped apart when a swimmer is brutally killed in the surf. Authorities are quick to dismiss the death as a freak accident. But when the horror strikes again, relentlessly moving north, the truth becomes undeniable. A rogue shark with a taste for human flesh is hunting in the placid waters of the summer resorts. The panic that seizes the coast is nothing compared to what comes next. In a terrifying turn that ...

An old house blemished with the putrid stench of past shame, an historic murder that was never satisfactorily solved, and a truth that is determined to show itself. Rob and his wife Julie are aware of their new house's unsavory past when they buy the property, but the place is a bargain that's too good to pass up. Located a short distance from the nearest town and in a prime position offering spectacular sea views, it's the perfect place for the couple to care for their foster children. However, it isn't long before the shadow of their new home's terrible past begins to taint their day-to-...

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.

A New York Times bestseller Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “A lyrical work of...

The mission was secret. The sinking was swift. The nightmare was just beginning. After delivering components for the atomic bomb in the closing days of World War II, the crew of the USS Indianapolis sails for home. But their triumph is short-lived. A volley of Japanese torpedoes tears their ship apart, plunging nearly nine hundred men into the vast, unforgiving darkness of the Pacific Ocean. Adrift with no rescue in sight, the survivors face a new enemy: the endless sea itself. Under the burning sun, dehydration and madness begin to claim them one by one. But when the water is broken by ...