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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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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“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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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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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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