Herman Melville said it best when he proclaimed that every path eventually leads to the sea. For it is the sea that holds our most sacred and terrifying fears, yet it also holds a glorious mysticism over us as a race, an attraction so strong that most of us flock to beaches, river banks, creeks, and lakes at every opportunity to stare out into the vast blueness and wonder: what's out there? Take my hand, Dear Reader, and swim with me through this journey of sixteen tales of watery terror. As we swim, if something reaches out of the darkness and gropes for your ankle, if something pulls you deeper into the depths of liquid madness, if your breath is stolen from you and you find yourself inhaling nothing but muddied water... do not fear, for it is just the ocean reclaiming what is already hers: your soul.
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Walt Hicks has authored hundreds of 'weird' short stories, and is founder, publisher and editor of the late, lamented HellBound Books Publishing Co.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Waterlogged Terror,
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This review is from: Atrocitas Aqua: Horrors of the Deep (Paperback)
"Atrocitas Aqua" is an anthology containing 16 murky stories of waterlogged terror. The tone is set with Justin Stanchfield's Bone Lake, a hauntingly romantic tale which deftly switches between modern day and frontier past to tell two stories at once. Halo of Blood by Jason Brannon is fraught with high seas suspense featuring madness, sharks, pirates and voodoo...not necessarily in that order.You'll find plenty of tales about deadly beasts that make water their home. Perhaps the best of these is Walt Hicks' The Swamper which sheds just enough light on the swamp to scare you silly. For a lesson in the power of desire mixed with vengeful spirits look no further than Peggy Shumate's Living Doll: Jewel of Lost Souls. The creepy tentacled world of H.P. Lovecraft rears it's ugly head in Black Thorn by Christopher Fulbright. Steve E. Wedel tells an equally mysterious tale of calamity in When the Lady of Byblos Calls which proves even the water within the human body holds fear. Although the quality of the writing and the ideas is not consistent in this the collection the stand out stories are well worth the read. Jennifer Barnes, www.dreampeople.org
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but Murky,
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This review is from: Atrocitas Aqua: Horrors of the Deep (Paperback)
A fairly well done collection, holding a group of talented writers. The over-all concept is an interesting one, but, alas, the execution falls a little short. For every good story here there is an average one. Still, a number of them are finely crafted. Jason Brannon and Christopher Fulbright enter excellent tales. Megan Powell, Walt Hicks, And Steve Shrewsbury do a good job, too. The production of the product is very good, though.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Mix of stories,
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This review is from: Atrocitas Aqua: Horrors of the Deep (Paperback)
A super kewl mixture of horror stories in this watery anthology. I really enjoyed The stories by Brannon, Hicks, Blount and Shrewsbury. The Lovecraft one by Fullbright was creepies major! The cover art is what drew me to this right off.
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