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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There was a /r/nosleep thread featured here that was about a
who kills zxis entire family for 
sphobia or something (
), but even in horror stories, 
s are still NEETs mooching off their parents for HRT, toys, and vidya 
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You will read about Queer Horror featuring Trans Lesbians of Color and you will like it.
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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-upmarseyd-posts
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I searched and read through those threads right now. There was a comment about how most people who post on /r/nosleep are pooners, which made me remember something. A few years ago, a buddy recommended a horror series podcast (radio drama?). It was called the Magnus Archives, and it was about this British SCP Foundation-esque organization that records all kinds of spooky stories and events, which is at first episodic but then it develops an overarching storyline. In one of the extra episodes or something, where the writer of the show answers questions and replies to comments, he remarks about how a surprisingly high amount of the podcast's audience are lesbians, and one of the things they like about the show is how the main character isn't portrayed as a ladies men, and has no s*x life at all, even. As a professional nooticer, I didn't nootice too much stuff worth nooticing in the podcast up to that point (I think there was one episode where one of the interviewees was a transwoman whose career as a Hollywood writer was ruined when people found out she's trans? But that's it.) but then things changed and in the last season or so of the podcast the main character gets into a relationship with his male assistant and two female recurring characters hook up. Writing this essaypost I googled Magnus Archives and found its wiki and looked at few characters articles and they have a pronoun bar in the sidebar.
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look im gunna have 2 ask u 2 keep ur giant dumps in the potty not in my replys 😷😷😷
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The Terror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_(novel)
It's pretty long but I loved it. It's a fictional account of a real life Arctic expedition.
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huh hes still alive
and he published hyperion in 1989
thats surprisingly recent i always thought it was like at least a decade older
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Found
the second 
half of the TV show very underwhelming tbh, basically once the monster 
started showing 
up a lot. Is the book better? .
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I dunno I never watched the show.
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It started out amazing with great
acting and whatnot, but the monster 
shit kinda killed 
it. Terrible 
CGI but worst of all it killed 
the sort of paranoid 
atmosphere it'd been building. It seems like itd be much better 
suited to a book .
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There's 2 seasons of the terror and they're completely different. Season 2 is a internment camp and I never watched that one, but it sounds like what you're talking about.
Season 1 is about a old time whaling expedition to the north pole, and it's kino. So that's the one that matches the book, it seems like.
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I've only seen the first
season. It was kino until the monster 
imo. I really enjoyed it up until then. It was still good enough 
to recommend I'd say but not my fave. .
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“National bestseller” has me concerned
Is it really truly actually good
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sorry i'll try to find you some nautical horror that was transcribed by blind and deaf tibetan monks and never read by human eyes
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thank you
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I read it years ago and liked it. YMMV.
Edit: and since there's no horror quite like reality, the perfect storm (book and/or movie) about the Andrea Gail.
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While I haven't read this specific book he wrote Hyperion which is a really interesting and good book by scifi standards to the point that I wouldn't be embarrassed recommending it.
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It's great, especially if you like neurodivergent maritime logistics. Half the time, it seems like the supernatural bloodthirsty demon is the least of their problems compared to starvation and cold.
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Kino. I love logistics, most of my D&D games these days focus more on surviving the journey to the dungeon than the dungeon itself. This is why I love Darkest Dungeon, you need to be turning a profit and provisioning well to succeed at it.
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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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A5haj#In_culture
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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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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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I'd imagine The Thing is loosely based on it. It's fun short story.
It takes place in Antarctica which is on the water kind of.
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The Thing is an adaptation of Who Goes There? which came out only a couple years after Madness so probably not
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Dark Horse comics did a manga adaptation of this as well, for the weebs out there. It's good.
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Oh shit really? I love the original, I gotta check this out.
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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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Play Iron Lung, if you haven’t already. It’s really good. I’m very happy to see it getting praise and I hope that the dev makes more games set in the same universe since it’s very compelling.
For movies if you haven’t seen Underwater yet I highly recommend it. It does underwater horror really well and the monsters are pretty scary.
I’d also recommend the really obscure Lovecraft stuff. He has quite a few really good twists and also some cool monsters outside of what he’s known for. My favorite ones are the cone aliens, they were very chill.
Edited to add two more movies I just remembered:
Triangle: this one is really good and mind fricky. Do yourself a favor and don’t read anything about it since you’re best going in blind.
Triangle of Terror: this one is an old 70’s movie so you may have a hard time tracking it down but it’s a fun watch for what it is.
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Underwater felt like a sleeper cause it was layered under B-list-A-List actors doing popcorn horror action, but it was good stuff. Wish they'd figured out a slightly better way to do the dark or that I'd seen it in a theater.
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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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The Terror is pretty solid (I guess it's nautical since there's boats, even if they don't move)
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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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