The scares are good, thanks to the surreal imagery. But in a novel you can’t do that because you stay with one character, and that character has to live through the entire book.
That might work in movies, which reward you with a gory death in return for the anticipation. This is a common thing I see in horror novels–the story stops for the scares. There wasn’t enough of the plot moving forward. But once the catalyst was reached, the story went from five stars down to three. And it reminds me of a horror version of Merm-8. Part horror, part psychological nightmare, The Deep is a novel that fans of Stephen King and Clive Barker won't want to miss-especially if you're afraid of the dark"- … ( more) But now the station is incommunicado, and it's up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths.and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea's surface. It may just be the key to a universal cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia" has been discovered-a universal healer, from initial reports. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily.and there is no cure. It causes people to forget-small things at first, like where they left their keys.then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. A strange plague called the 'Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale.
"From the acclaimed author of The Troop-which Stephen King raved "scared the hell out of me and I couldn't put it down.old-school horror at its best"-comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.
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