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
