Summer Horror Reading Challenge

[WendyB , Witchy Woman]

Aquatic Horror - Stories set in, on, or near water

Keep track of the books you read for this challenge.
See what your HA friends are reading.
Have a great summer and be careful around the water!

Sign up for the challenge here: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

[Fishface]

I am so all over this!

[WendyB , Witchy Woman]

Fishface wrote: "I am so all over this!"

LOL :D
It does seem perfect for you!

[Netanella]

Horror Aficionados Aquatic Terror Summer Reading Challenge

Date: May 14, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Books Read: 0/10

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Possibilities
The Deep by Alma Katsu
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Fisherman by John Langan

[Johnny]

Sounds awesome! I‘m ready to dive in. (I‘m sorry, I‘ll see myself out 😄)

[Badseedgirl]

I'm going to try this one, but I'm probably going to need suggestions for this one. Turns out I have lots of water based books in my TBR list.

Date: May 14, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Aquatic Horror

Books Read: 16/10
Possible Reads:

1. Sea Sick - Iain Rob Wright (07/27/2022)
2. Terror in the Trench: An Aquatic Horror Anthology - Jay Alexander
3. Beach Bodies: A Beach Vacation Horror Anthology- Darklit Press (06/12/2022)
4. Slice of Paradise: A Beach Vacation Horror Anthology - Darklit Press (06/16/2022)
5. Something's Alive on the Titanic - Robert Sterling
6. Floaters: A Victorian Zombie Adventure - Garrett Boatman (05/23/2022)
7. Blood Lake Monster - Renee Miller (07/02/2022)
8. The Kelping - Jan Stinchcomb (05/19/2022)
9. Kill River - Cameron Roubique (08/17/2022)
10. The Lake - Richard Laymon
11. The Shadow over Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft (06/15/2022)
12. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (06/08/2022)
13. When it Rains - Mark Allan Gunnells
14. The Old Bay King - Donnie Goodman (05/20/2022)
15. We Are the Water People - Troy Onyango (05/20/2022)
16. Earthworm Gods - Brian Keene 06/03/2022
17. The Loch - Steve Alten (06/15/2022)
18. Clickers - J.F. Gonzalez
19. Dagon - H.P Lovecraft (06/15/2022)
20. Deck Z: The Titanic: Unsinkable. Undead. - Chris Paul
21. 100 Fathoms Below - Steven L. Kent (06/23/2022)
22. On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers (08/18/2022)
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Read for the Challenge

[Gianfranco]

I'm in!!!

Date: May 14, 2022 - August 31, 2022

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[Anne]

Fishface wrote: "I am so all over this!"<

Hey I just finished Menagerie by E. Stuart Marlowe. Weren’t you the one looking for animal horror? It was a pretty good read with made up monsters.

[Anne]

I’m in! I’ll see what I can crossover with the a-z & tbr challenges. I’ll shoot for 10 I guess.

[Niki]

I'll be working throughout the entirety of this challenge so my goal is at ankle height (2 books) But I still want to participate lol. 2 books are better than 0.

1. Our Wives Under the Sea 2/5 stars
2. A House at the Bottom of a Lake

Possible picks that were already on my TBR:
Our Wives Under the Sea
Flowers for the Sea
A House at the Bottom of a Lake
Dead Sea

[inciminci]

I'm in too, just can't decide how much... I guess I'll start with 3 and maybe raise later!

1. The Devil and the Deep
2. Flowers for the Sea
3. The Pisces
4. Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth
5. Our Wives Under the Sea

[WendyB , Witchy Woman]

These are books I'll try for the challenge:

Deeper
Cruel Summer
Salvage
They Came From The Ocean
The Chill

[Jayme]

Few Suggestions:
Tidepool by Nicole Willson
All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter

[Missy]

I have a recommendation: Furious: Sailing Into Terror by Jeffrey James Higgins. It’s intense and nautical.

I’m new to Goodreads so let me know if I do anything wrong.

I’m going to do this challenge. How long do we have to complete it?

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[Ruth]

Yay for another reading challenge to help me tackle my excessive TBR! I really like this theme and I'm excited to get started with a goal of 5.

Date: May 14, 2022 - August 31, 2022

Progress: 6/5

1. The Big Blue by Matt Shaw (finished 5/15/22)
2. Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell
3. Dark Across The Bay by Ania Ahlborn (finished 6/4/22)
4. Dreadnought: Fear The Deep by Michael Cole
5. From Below by Darcy Coates
6. The Gulp by Alan Baxter
7. Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury
8. The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager (finished 7/26/22)
9. Loch Ness by Matt Shaw (finished 5/15/22)
10. Loch Ness Revenge by Hunter Shea
11. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (finished 7/17/22)
12. Night Waves by David Irons
13. Shredders by Michael Cole
14. Witch of the Water by B.B. Griffith (finished 7/31/22)

[Andrew]

I’m game but could use some suggestions. Also what is the challenge exactly like how many books etc? But I am pumped!

[Susan]

NinaKirikiHoffman has a mershort at mermaids monthly from last year, and Michael Buckley wrote a teen dark fantasy trilogy Undertow...

[Susan]

https://mermaidsmonthly.com/2021/08/2...

[Stephanie]

I’m in for three! Picks may change at any time.
1. ✅ The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
2. ✅ The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu This turned out to not be horror!
3. ✅ Motherfucking Sharks by Brian Allen Carr
4. ✅ The Thing From the Lake by Eleanor M. Ingram

[Jeff]

WendyB, good choice with The Chill by Scott Carson. Great book and appropriate for the category.

Everyone doing this challenge should strongly consider The Deep by Michaelbrent Collings. He's prolific and if you enjoy that one then you'll be thrilled to read his other work.

Can't really go wrong with SGJ but, just so you know, Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth is a short story collection that doesn't involve much aquatic content.

[Icy-Cobwebs-Crossing-SpaceTime]

Aversion Self-Therapy here, it's worked magnificently for Spiders and Fire

5/14: Strangeville School Is Definitely Not Cursed. Floods and Kraken, wooo

[WendyB , Witchy Woman]

Andrew wrote: "I’m game but could use some suggestions. Also what is the challenge exactly like how many books etc? But I am pumped!"

You choose any number of books you would like to read and the titles. Go to the challenge page: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/... and enter the number of books and the shelf name you want to use. Be sure to put the books you read on that shelf for them to be counted. Also, I have a link there to some Aquatic Horror books for ideas. Then have fun reading!

[KaysBookcase]

I'm going to try 3 books....I've not done a reading challenge before so want to start small (plus want to fit them around my other planned reads) excited to be taking part 😊

[Jeff]

Fantastic collection.

[Netanella]

I've added these to the list:

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' by William Hope Hodgson
Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
Meg by Steve Alten
Adrift by K.R. Griffiths

[October]

I'm 100% in. Aquatic horror is one of my favorites so I set my goal at 13.

[Justin]

All right, I'm in. My picks:

The Deep
Jaws
The Fisherman
The Chill
Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga
Dark Water
Into the Drowning Deep
The Deep
The Night Boat
Pressure

[Ami]

YESSSSSS!! I’m in!

Let me think about what I want to read and how much! I have a whole goodreads shelf for sea and lake creatures. This is one of my favorite subcategories!!

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I'm going to be overly ambitious, lol, and shoot for 15!

(( 3 out of 15 ))

1. The Lake of the Dead - Andre Bjerke
2.From Below- Darcy Coates
3.Maplecroft - Cherie Priest
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[Stephanie]

Netanella wrote: "I've added these to the list:

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' by William Hope Hodgson
Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndha..."

I really liked The Boats of the ‘Glen Carrig’! Hope you enjoy it!

[Gordon]

I will go for 5 initially.
From the Depths and other strange tales of the sea
The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham
Legenda Maris - Tanith Lee
I am also about half way through 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas anyway.

[Marie]

Whoo-hoo! Joining of course! :) I have my picks ready to go! In no particular order:



1) Lords of the Deep by Tim Meyer - finished 6/13/2022

2) Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael Cole

[Ian (RebelGeek)]

I will probably only be able to squeeze in 1 for this challenge.
Into the Drowing Deep is pretty great!
I may read Chimera, The Deep or The Fisherman!

[Carissa | the.grim.readers]

Not sure if this has been suggested yet but The Deep by Nick Cutter!

[Lena]

Oooh I have a book club read coming up that is perfect for this.

1. Sphere by Michael Crichton
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I will try to read 2 but will have to find another book for number 2.

[Sassy Sedusa]

hi! i’m new to doing reading challenges but would like to participate.
uuummm… can we read any aquatic horror or the ones suggested?

[Amanda]

I’m definitely in! Love this theme! In no particular order, I’ll complete at least five from this list by 8/31/2022. Happy reading!

1) Terror in the Trench: An Aquatic Horror Anthology (Dead Seas Book) edited by Jay Alexander
2) Into the Deep A Horror Anthology
3) Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
4) Merfolk by Jeremy Bates
5) The Deep by Nick Cutter
6)The Fisherman by John Langan
7) From Below by Darcy Coates
8) Isolation Island: Into the Wild by Johnny Moscato
9) The Big Blue by Matt Shaw
10) A House at the Bottom of the Lake by Josh Mallerman

[Patrick]

Summer Horror Reading Challenge: Aquatic Horror May 14th- August 31st
I'm going to go for 3 and update as I go

Progress: 1/3

1. The Fisherman by John Langan
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[inciminci]

Sassy Sedusa wrote: "hi! i’m new to doing reading challenges but would like to participate.
uuummm… can we read any aquatic horror or the ones suggested?"

Hey Sassy! You can read any auqatic horror you want. I think many people didn't know what to read and asked for help so there's lots of recs. My list is growing by the minute.

[Patty]

Love this, and it will be my first challenge.

All suggestions welcome!

I’m thinking The Deep by Nick Cutter, and Cold Moon Over Babylon to start for sure.

[Michael]

I'm in. I"ve read many of the suggested books already, so I'll going a little conservative here until I figure out what to choose. Aiming for a total of 3 titles. Maybe I'll change it later. Can't wait to see what everyone else has read!
8/30 update: I had way too many books on my to-be-read shelf, and several with deadlines (review copies). That made this harder than I thought it would be. I'll still try to keep my plan of 3 books, but will probably need another month to complete. I'll list them here as I go. Just finished my first today - - at least I have one by the deadline.
1. SLICE OF PARADISE: A BEACH HORROR ANTHOLOGY edited by Ben Long and Andrew Robert (August 30)
2. FROM BELOW by Darcy Coates (Nov 15)

[Elke]

I’m not really a water person, but as long as it is only in a book I’m in. No idea what books I will read for this yet, but 3 should be manageable.

[WendyB , Witchy Woman]

wow! you all have come up with some great titles.
Should make for a wonderful summer of reading.

[Sassy Sedusa]

inciminci wrote: "Sassy Sedusa wrote: "hi! i’m new to doing reading challenges but would like to participate.
uuummm… can we read any aquatic horror or the ones suggested?"

Hey Sassy! You can read any auqatic horr..."

thank you! 🙂

[Sassy Sedusa]

summer horror reading challenge: aquatic horror
may 14- august 31

books read 4/5

1. The Siren's Curse: A Haunting and Chilling Short Story by Angharad Thompson Rees

2. Stranded: An Island Survival Story by Nicholas Jordan

3. The Mariana Trench: A novel of suspense and supernatural horror by Matt Shaw

4. Across the Floors of Silent Seas by C.S. Johnson

5. Loch Ness by Matt Shaw

6. Beneath by Maureen A. Miller

[Yunie]

1. Dark Water by Koji Suzuki
2. Dead Voices by Abigail McDaniels

Only taking on two for this one considering I'm behind on all my challenges 😭

[Lindsey]

I love seeing everyone’s ideas!!!! I’m gonna shoot for 3 this summer and I’ll pick my 3 by June 1!

[Ayesha (Seokjin's Version) ☾]

I will read 3 books for this challenge.

[Shannon]

This sounds fun! I'm going to aim for 5. :)

1. Rolling in the Deep 5 Stars!



2. Into the Drowning Deep



I fell short on this challenge, but I had a blast, and it introduced me to a genre of books that I had no idea I would love so much, so thank you!! :)

[Glassaxe]

Oh yeaaah I am down. I’m probably going to steal some of everyone else’s recs on here.

[Lisa]

Yay, I'll commit to five, hoping I can maybe double it. I just found this so I'm off to make a list.
The Chill
Cradle Lake done
Monsters in Our Wake done
It Came From Space done
A View from the Lake done
Sharkwater Beach done