#nautical horror

[horror-aesthete]

The Lighthouse, 2019, dir. Robert Eggers

[l1ve-l4ugh-lov3craft]

just remembered the gay nautical horror podcast/audio drama my sibling and i were gonna write that was the reason i got tumblr in the first place and???

oh my gosh it was gonna be so good anyone wanna hear about it???

[corsairesix]

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day, and just for today The Dreaded and the Deep is FREE on itch. Pick it up for some nautical terror, ARRRRRRRRR!

[the-golden-vanity]

Ahoy, shipmates!

Over the course of several delayed flights this weekend, I devoured a paperback copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. I found it enjoyable, if not a Great Classic Work Of Literature.

My question to you now is, there's a chapter in the middle of the book where our castaway hero encounters a plague ship. It moves erratically through the water before them, with what appears to be a smiling, nodding sailor at the rail, acknowledging Arthur and his fellow castaways.

However, as the ship approaches, the stench of death washes over our hero and his companions, and as it passes under their stern, they can see that all aboard the ship are dead of some terrible, unknown disease, and that the smile and nod they perceived were the rictus of death and the movement of a seagull feasting on the dead sailor's flesh.

This is my first time reading this book, and yet there's something viscerally, intensely familiar about this imagery. I feel like I've read this somewhere else before. Perhaps it was in a graphic novel, because my mental image of this scene appears in a sort of comic-book style.

Does anyone have any ideas where I might have encountered this before? Any help would be appreciated.

@clove-pinks @benjhawkins @ltwilliammowett @saranilssonbooks

[teatime-tangents-and-toys]

Living Dead Dolls Captain Bonney, an ambitious attempt at a fancy collector doll based on the real historical pirate Anne Bonny. I was shocked to see how little the doll gathered on the aftermarket for the deluxe design tier she aimed for, and found multiple delightful surprises with her...as well as, perhaps, some deficits reducing her demand. Read my full review of this doll I'm shocked is so ignored here.

[rebeccathornewrites]

Did you guys see the cover of my new book?? Comes out June 6th, 2023. Arcane x Bioshock, set on a Titanic-like submarine.

Enemies to lovers.

A soldier protecting a princess.

"I'd die for you."

"I'd kill for you."

Cait/Vi vibes.

A ship of passengers slowly turning violent.

WHUMP.

And... there's spice. >.>

Please go preorder my book I'm really nervous no one will like it. All my readers right now are of the cozy variety, but you guys are going to swoon over these lesbians, I promise.

EDIT: Summary below!

A soldier and a princess have to band together to survive when passengers on their ship begin massacring each other. Only problem is, the women are exes, and they hate each other.

[siryl]

A surreal sea scene by Kiginobiru.

[tranthologies]

S3 EP10: SIPHON

"Siphon" by Zoey Davis is out NOW!!!

Dani and her father Virgil are the only trans people in their small Newfoundland fishing town. On a crab trapping trip, they encounter something beyond their comprehension, but perhaps this was destined?

Written by Zoey Davis Directed by Zoey Davis Edited by Alex Abrahams Art by Alex Abrahams

Zoey Davis as the Narrator Alex Abrahams as Virgil Miri Newman as Dani

[theautismcorner]

I know I said I’d have REDACTED published on ao3 a couple of weeks ago so oops but here it is!

[octokoco]

lochtober day 4: lighthouse!

[challenge under the cut]

hii im back, i've been a little under the weather and didn't feel well enough to sit at my desk and draw >~< so now i'm playing catch up! i really wanted to do all 31 prompts, so i'm going to try and draw a few little pieces every day until i'm back on track :3 did some alcohol marker stuff for this one ^-^ it was really fun!!

a few different artists have been participating in the drawing challenge on different social media, it's been really cool to see their stuff!! my scheme to get to see more nautical horror art for free is coming along swimmingly >:)

anyways, hope u like this. i'll try to upload some more later today!! if i can!!

[horror-aesthete]

The Last Voyage of the Demeter, 2023, dir. André Øvredal

[l1ve-l4ugh-lov3craft]

OKAY SO I JUST FOUND THIS SHORT FILM??? It’s a lovecraft-inspired project about half an hour long and honestly one of THE BEST deep ocean horror films I’ve ever watched! I can’t say enough good things about it so you should GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW

[corsairesix]

"Forty years ago, the skies opened up and maps became useless." The Dreaded and the Deep is a nautical terror game in which you sail the haunted Dosolti Sea, and become irrevocably changed by what you experience.

[latinosylvain]

I've been gone for a while but it's because I've been working on a game non-stop for almost a year and I'm super excited for its release in May!!

Aphotic Descent is an underwater horror game where you descend into various ocean zones and encounter monsters with all sorts of colorful personalities. It's a bit retro style and takes place in the 1980's.

🦀 It's available to wishlist right now - please support the release! 🦀

[scribbling-scientist]

Art Fight 2023! @vileblooded has a beautifly sad horror world by the name of Blackwater! Please go check it out on insta

[full-of-terrors]

Adding this to my reading challenges list on StoryGraph if anyone wants to join

Hello friends, I am back with more reading recommendations for your agonies! Next up we have the long awaited and much requested Sad Boat Fiction list. As with all of my lists, this is NOT exhaustive and there WILL be great books left off, and also you may or may not like these books! I only rec things that I've personally enjoyed or that come highly recommended by trusted friends, but taste in books is incredibly subjective, especially with fiction. If I missed your favorite, please add it in the comments or drop it in my DMs!

Now that I'm feeling more settled in my new job, I will hopefully have a lot more time to make book lists and do more virtual Readers' Advisory. I have lists in the works for women in polar exploration and companion reads for the HBO War series, but if there's something else you would love to see, please send me a message!

Classics of the Genre

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Media Tie-Ins

Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing) by John W. Campbell, Jr.

The North Water by Ian McGuire

Cold Skin by Alfred Sánchez Piñol

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Graphic Novels

Whiteout by Greg Rucka

How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*

*this is only fiction in the broadest possible sense of the term, but there is a shiny new American version of this book coming out with a gorgeous new cover and you should pre-order it immediately

Science Fiction

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson

Romance

Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

My Last Continent by Midge Raymond

Inspired by the Terra Nova Expedition

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard*

The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge

Terra Nova: A Play by Ted Tally

Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur

*this is only fiction in the broadest possible sense of the term, but there is a shiny new American version of this book coming out with a gorgeous new cover and you should pre-order it immediately

Inspired by the Franklin Expedition

The Rifles by William T. Vollmann

Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin

Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

On the Proper Use of Stars by Dominique Fortier

Literary Fiction

The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen

Inspired by the Classics

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Modern Day Antarctica

How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior

South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Polar and Nautical Horror

Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Cold Earth by Sarah Moss

The Deep by Nick Cutter

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

Dark Water by Elizabeth Lowry

The Deep by Alma Katsu

Happy reading!