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There Be Monsters: Deep Down: Thirteen Tales of the Deep and the Dark - A Horror Anthology
Paperback
Series: There Be Monsters
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Don't go looking for the bottom.
Some lakes have a deep end nobody swims to. Some mines have a rule nobody explains. Some caves are marked on old maps with a single word and nothing else. There Be Monsters: Deep Down is thirteen stories about what happens when people go looking anyway - into water, into rock, into the parts of the world built to keep them out.
A grieving sister recovers her drowned brother's GoPro footage and learns he wasn't afraid of what took him - he was reaching for it. A dive streamer's live audience watches something surface behind him that isn't the shark he thinks it is. A marine acoustician tracking a pod of whales logs a signal that starts mimicking her crew's voices, then their names - and by the time anyone admits the ship is sixty miles off course, it has already steered them onto the ice. Somewhere below a Belizean blue hole, something older than the water waits exactly where the light gives out.
Thirteen tales. Two directions down. One rule that never changes: whatever lives below the light has been there longer than the warning, and it does not forget who ignored it.
This is adult horror - grounded, atmospheric, and built to follow you out of the book and into the next dark water you have to cross.
For readers of Paul Tremblay and Shirley Jackson who want their campfire stories aged up: sharper, crueler, and unwilling to let anyone off the hook.
There Be Monsters: Deep Down is Book Two in the There Be Monsters series.
Every warning was true once. Some are still being written.
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