Simple request. Recommend unsettling stories of the ocean. This is a broad ask—Melville and Lovecraft both fit the bill, and anything in between.
Nothing pulpy though. Obviously no YA or mass produced garbo.
Oceanic horror kino is welcome too.
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Why don't you look for something in /r/nosleep, Carp?
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nosleep blueballing me is what led to this lmao
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https://old.reddit.com/r/nosleep/search/?q=ocean&restrict_sr=1
They can't all be terrible, can they?
Edit: Google gives this list of 46 books:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ocean+horror+stories+books&ei
They probably all suck, and are probably YA. I'm not checking. I don't care.
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I remember liking the one where they dive into the mariana trench
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Calling my biography a horror story is just mean
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do we hate that subreddit
i read it sometimes at work when bored and got nothing better to do
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It was pretty decent horror * but now every single story has to mention globohomo (carp has seethe-posted about this a bunch).
EDIT: * INTERNET horror, creepypasta style.
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I dunno.
Carp had a bit of a shit experience with it earlier today, so I decided to prod him a little. 
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Average Reddit horror:
https://rdrama.net/post/91231/one-of-the-most-upvoted-posts
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Baby shark dooodoodooodooodooo
Mommy shark dooodooodoooodododo
DADDY SHARK 🦈 AND SHARK ATE ALL THE GUYS!!!!!
Sends a chill down my spine every time. Enjoy!
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Duh...
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"A Descent into the Maelström"
"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
Both by Edgar Allen Poe.
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I own all of Poe already and I don’t even like him
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Interesting. It seemed like from your other responses in this thread that you like Lovecraft. The two always struck me as being pretty similar, what don't you like about Poe?
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My real answer is William Hope Hodgson and there is a short story anthology called Sea-Cursed: Thirty Terrifying Tales Of The Deep
wait wait wait I recommend this series, I have a couple of their books
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Do you like Robert Aickman, carp?
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You are just full of extremely promising bong recommendations aren’t you
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I can't help it, they make up 95% of my library. let me know if you want foid x bong recs
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I’m going to be reading a ton soon and I think you have the two winning recs so far with Hodgson and Aickman. If this goes well I will 10000% hit you up for more.
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I can't remember if Aickman has written any nautical themed stories I was just wondering if you had read him, I do rec him tho
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Have you read The Call of Cthulhu
already? .
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Yes I own a very nice complete Lovecraft collection, a carved Nyarlathotep idol, two lil carved Chtulhus and a Lovecraft themed cookbook lmao
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Nyalarhotep best elder god
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ah, thats all i got. bigger
jaws maybe?
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never met a normal person who had read that book
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You should GM Call of Cthulhu for /h/traditionalgames
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If you don't mind text-to-speech there's a collection of 4chan deep sea horror stories you might like:
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If you're willing to give folk tales a try, check out Bluenose Ghosts, particularly the Phantom Ships and Sea Mysteries chapter.
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when i was a kid me and my best friend watched deep blue sea so many times. for some reason it was the only R rated movie our parents were cool with.
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Play Barotrauma
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Or Iron Lung
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I am totally unafraid of that game's sea monsters, a clown with a a diving knife can handle them solo.
I am terrified of losing valuable cargo/passengers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heart_of_the_Sea
It's non-fiction and historical, but it's got lots of horror and cannibal fun
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You can play or watch a Let's Play of "The Return of the Obra Dinn". It's more like an interactive story than an actual game. The plot is that a ship thought to have been lost shows up with every single crew member dead of seemingly violent causes. You use a magic watch to show how each of them died and piece together what actually happened on the ship.
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Pro-tip: don't guess. You can only solve the mystery once, so guessing can make you feel like you've cheated yourself
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Starfish by Peter Watts, you can get the pdfs for the whole rifters series for free off his website.
Rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
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What a massive failure of a thread
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Did you ever listen to the no sleep podcast carp? I don’t listen anymore but I used to listen a ton back in the day.
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I will never listen to a podcast
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The early episodes are very endearing
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Not even the Grillcast or the Bald Podcast?
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10k leagues
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/282140/SOMA/
this entire horror game
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Pin 2 is cute
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you will probably get recommended this book, because it’s about horror/murder/mayhem in a research base at the bottom of the ocean, but DON’T read The Deep by Nick Cutter. his book The Troop rules, and because of it i got tricked into reading The Deep, which was not very good. a solid 4/10 if i’m generous.
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I know you said nothing pulpy and no mass produced garbo. I'm going to ignore that and link some nosleep posts.
I went to a yacht party. It'll probably be my last time.
Has anybody heard of the Ocean Conspiracies?
I think these ones are pretty spooky. Failing that, they've very short.
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Diver down by Michael ange. Its chapter after chapter of ways to die while scuba diving.
I skipped the chapter on getting hit with a boat prop because the whole idea gives me the jewish chade jeebies
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Sphere by Michael Crichton is good and an easy read.
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Go swim in the ocean at night
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Have done, would not recommended. The sharks are out then. Even if they don't bite you, they'll follow you.
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I don't read fiction because that is for foids and strags but I will recommend something somewhat adjacent that is a great read for chads
Alone Together
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01M7PG32F/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1689383222&sr=8-1
Its a book by a guy who sailed to hawaii and back by himself. Its a scary, harrowing journey and written phenomenally. You will also learn a frick ton about sailing.
Or i guess you could just go dress up like cthulu and jerk yourself off with calamari like some deranged sea furry. Real men like sailing.
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https://itch.io/games/tag-horror/tag-underwater
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Carp look at my newest post in /h/lit it fits the bill perfectly
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You could read The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgeson.
I haven't personally read it but enjoyed two of his other novels.
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You ever see the movie Dagon?
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not a book but a story driven mystery puzzle game. Please play Return of the Obra Dinn it fits what you're looking for 100%
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Not fantasy, but this YouTube channel is pure autism: Maritime Horrors
Another even more severe neurodivergent guy talking about the ruskies sinking a ship of German refugees on purpose wwii: Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - by everyone's favorite nip homofascist
Das Boot - Follow a Nazi U-boat in late WW2. Watch all five hours in a darkened room in one sitting.
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Not a book, but you’d probably really like the game Sunless Sea.
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Journey to the End of the World
The stranger
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Das Boot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot_(novel)
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The Fisherman by John Langan
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The comic
The Wake (10 issues) is fun deep sea scifi.
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