Death by Water

In each of these stories from some of greatest writers of horror and dark fiction, water plays the dual role of accomplice and executioner. With accidental drownings, irresistible calls of sirens from the deep, strange whisperings from household plumbing, faces of the dead in droplets of water, rabid fish, leviathan monsters, and more, these thirty-nine tales of death by water will make you think twice about taking that long-awaited cruise, going for a midnight swim, or taking your next shower. HIP­POCAM­PUS by Adam Nevill YOU WILL COME TO NO HARM IN WATER by Lucy Taylor ANTUM­BRA by Lucy Snyder TO TAKE THE WATER DOWN AND GO TO SLEEP by Frazer Lee THE DROWN­ING OF COLIN HEN­DER­SON by Stephen Gregory THE OLD WOMAN AND THE SEA by Marge Simon THE EVER­LAST­ING by Anthony Watson THE BAL­LAD OF BAL­LARD AND SAN­DRINE by Peter Straub THE DEEP­EST PART OF THE OCEAN by Joanna Parypinski WALK­ING ON WATER by Dona Fox A SONG ONLY PAR­TIALLY HEARD by John Langan THE WASH by Lisa Morton WET SEA­SON by Den­nis Etchison THE TARN by Simon Bestwick WINGS MADE FROM WATER by John Palisano RAISED BY THE MOON by Ram­sey Campbell EVEN THE STARS FALL by Nicola Lombardi COME UP by Brian Evenson UNDER­WA­TER FER­RIS WHEEL by Michael Bailey RIVER WATCH by Bruce Boston PERISCOPE OF THE DEAD by Paolo Di Orazio GILLS by David J. Schow ORI by Adam Millard BY THE SEA by Alessan­dro Manzetti DROWN­ING by Gre­gory L. Norris SEA SLUG by Edward Lee THE HIKER by Jeremy Megargee EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH by Tim Waggoner SCAPE-​GOAT by Clive Barker THE FOURTH BELL by Daniel Braum SIREN by Jonah Buck THE DOU­BLE LENS by Lisa Mannetti JUST WATCH ME NOW by Jodi Renee Lester BORN OF DARK WATERS by Michael H. Hanson THE GORGE OF CHIL­DREN by Daniele Bonfanti FRESH CATCH by Michael A. Arnzen A JOUR­NEY OF GREAT WAVES by Eric J. Guignard IN THE DREAM­TIME OF LADY RES­UR­REC­TION by Caitlin R. Kiernan