Recs if you like Dead Sea...

for people who are both terrified of and fascinated by the ocean (like me)

...or the shallow. But either way, don't go near the water.

Aquatic horror

We think of summer as the season of light, but shadows are longest when the sun is highest. It is the time of the year when the woods grow too thick to see through, the water grows too dark to see into, and the heat makes the mind play tricks. From the rotting porches of the South to the blood-stained cabins of the North... We call them the Summer Nightmares.

exploration, shipwreck, waves, storms, beasts

lovecraftian, rot, silverfish, seaweed, khthonic, silt, seawater

Davy Jones, Kraken, Flying Dutchman, Ghost Ships, Pirates, Bermuda Triangle, oh my!

Nautical: of relating to sailors, sailing, or ships.

I have not read almost any of these, so sorry if a lot of these aren’t that good lol. There seem to be very few quintessential nautical horror books, but a whole lot of possibly middling ones.