From our earliest campfire legends to our biggest blockbuster movies, a deep dive into the stories we tell about water and the horrors it hides
In the 300,000 years Homo sapiens have walked the planet, we've explored less than 30% of the ocean. Yet, again and again, we're pulled under by our enduring fascination with water, the mysteries it hides and the unrelenting power of its destructive force. Something in the Water is a fun and irreverent history of aquatic horror, one that is nearly as vast and deep as the waters it explores.
Each period and culture has its own stories of what lurks below: mermaid tales, fishing folklore, sea monsters, and flood legends. From Greek mythology to kaijus to Lovecraft to Shark Week, this book is a wild and light-hearted trip through our deepest, darkest nightmares. Each chapter is divided into subsections, presenting all aspects of aquatic horror, ranging from real-life oddities, ghost stories, and legends based on facts to more contemporary media portrayals in comic books, fiction, movies, and television.
Something in the Water chronicles our obsession with the nightmarish mysteries of aquatic horror and is a must-read for anyone who wonders what else slithers alongside the creatures of the deep.
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Rebekah McKendry is an award-winning director and writer and the host of Fangoria's Colors of the Dark podcast. She has written and worked for media companies like Fangoria Entertainment, Shudder, Simon & Schuster, Universal, and Dark Horse. McKendry has a PhD in media arts with a focus on the horror genre and is a professor of cinematic arts at the University of Southern California.
Lisa Kröger is the Stoker- and Locus Award-winning author of Monster, She Wrote and Toil and Trouble. She holds a PhD in Gothic literature and co-hosts the biweekly podcasts Monster, She Wrote and Know Fear Cast. Kröger is chair of the board of the Horror Writer's Association and a member of the Nyx Horror Collective. She produced 13 Minutes of Horror: Folklore and its Rondo Hatton Award-winning sequel, 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci Fi Horror.
Alyse Wax is the author of Curious Goods: Behind the Scenes of Friday the 13th: The Series and The World of IT. She worked on reality TV shows like Big Brother, Hell's Kitchen, and Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End before shifting focus to writing. Wax was associate editor at FEARnet.com, horror editor at Collider.com, and co-editor-in-chief of DreadCentral.com. She has also written for SYFY Wire, Fangoria, Teen People , Weekly World News, and USA Network's Character Blog, among other publications.