From Below

by Darcy Coates Narrated by Abby Craden

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

If, after you read From Below, you click through to Darcy Coates’ name here on our site, you will see the depth of her horror oeuvre. We once asked, “How many ways can Darcy Coates scare us?” Just know, speaking of depths, that fear goes as far below as it does above. While a haunted house skims the top of land, what do you make of a haunted ship? Follow the sonar signal at your peril.

No light. No air. No escape.

Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits...

Years ago, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace during a routine voyage. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more than three hundred miles from its intended course...a silent graveyard deep beneath the ocean's surface, eagerly waiting for the first sign of life.

Cove and her dive team have been granted permission to explore the Arcadia's rusting hull. Their purpose is straightforward: examine the wreck, film everything, and, if possible, uncover how and why the supposedly unsinkable ship vanished.

But the Arcadia has not yet had its fill of death, and something dark and hungry watches from below. With limited oxygen and the ship slowly closing in around them, Cove and her team will have to fight their way free of the unspeakable horror now desperate to claim them.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

04/04/2022

Coates (the Gravekeeper series) demonstrates her skill at conjuring atmospheric horror and maintaining taut suspense in the dual timelines of this standalone outing. In the present, Cove Waimarie leads a production team filming a documentary about the SS Arcadia, an ocean liner that disappeared in 1928 while traveling from the U.S. to Britain. Before the ship went silent, its crew sent three SOS messages, but, bizarrely, conveyed rapidly shifting coordinates. Evidence of its fate only surfaced nine months later, when a piece of oar, believed to be from one of its lifeboats, washed ashore on a Polish beach. Eventually, the ship is located on the ocean floor, and Waimarie’s team hopes the wreck will offer some answers to the lingering mystery of what sank it. Their investigation becomes hazardous, however, when the divers encounter possibly paranormal perils. Coates is particularly good at only hinting at something ominous, as when the explorers find a cryptic message on one of the Arcadia’s walls, stating simply, “They came through here.” Meanwhile, flashbacks to 1928 ratchet up the reader’s fears for the filmmakers. Coates’s subtle plotting makes this a solid pick for horror fans. (June)

From the Publisher

"Coates demonstrates her skill at conjuring atmospheric horror and maintaining taut suspense in the dual timelines of this standalone outing...Coates’s subtle plotting makes this a solid pick for horror fans." — Publishers Weekly

"The latest horror story from the popular and prolific Coates is creepy, claustrophobic, and thoroughly frightening. Perfect for fans of undersea terror." — Booklist

"Something on the ship is waking up, and it doesn’t want them to leave. With a timeline that jumps between the last few days before the Arcadia sank and the present-day, Coates’s latest slowly ratchets up the tension and will leave readers gasping for air. Highly recommended for readers who enjoyed Caitlin Starling’s The Luminous Dead or other survival horror." — Library Journal

Library Journal

04/01/2022

The disappearance of the ocean liner Arcadia in the 1920s has fascinated people for a century. So when an ocean mapping project reveals a ship on the ocean floor matching the Arcadia's description, a production company hires a crew of experienced deep-sea divers to explore and get footage for a documentary. Once they drop anchor, things begin to go wrong almost immediately; most notably, the remote cameras fail, so instead of one manned dive they'll have to do three to meet their contractual obligations. The ship is remarkably well preserved thanks to the low oxygen in the deep sea, but the tight spaces, sediment, and almost complete darkness make it tricky to navigate. And when they encounter cryptic messages on the walls and barricaded hallways, it becomes clear to the divers that something is very wrong. Something on the ship is waking up, and it doesn't want them to leave. With a timeline that jumps between the last few days before the Arcadia sank and the present-day, Coates's (The Haunting of Leigh Harker) latest slowly ratchets up the tension and will leave readers gasping for air. VERDICT Highly recommended for readers who enjoyed Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead or other survival horror.—Stephanie Klose

Product Details

BN ID:	2940159465986
Publisher:	Black Owl Books
Publication date:	07/05/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	512,384

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