Merfolk

by Jeremy Bates

Overview

From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the fourth book in the all-new WORLD'S SCARIEST LEGENDS series. For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Creepypastas.

A cave-diving expedition on a mysterious island goes horribly wrong for a renowned marine biologist and his fellow divers when they become hunted by a deadly breed of predators that until then had only been known in myths and legends.

Although in a series, this is a STAND-ALONE novel. For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Richard Laymon, Bentley Little, as well as other horror and mystery authors such as Dan Simmons, Jack Ketchum, Robert McCammon, Brian Keene, Darcy Coates, Amy Cross, Jeff Strand, Ambrose Ibsen, Jeremy Robinson, Nick Cutter, Blake Crouch, Joe Hill, Iain Rob Wright, Jeff Menapace, Matt Shaw, Heather Graham, Jack Kilborn, James Herbert. We hope you enjoy!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781988091570
Publisher:	Ghillinnein Books
Publication date:	06/21/2021
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	158,975
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Editorial Reviews

03/21/2022

Bates’s breezy fourth World’s Scariest Legends novel (after The Man from Taured) sends a wealthy British scientist hunting merfolk off the coast of Sri Lanka. Martin Murdoch, the “MerDoc,” believes that prehuman semiaquatic apes who thrived along the ocean shore evolved into merfolk. But after he appears in a documentary on this theory that turns out to be a hoax, he retreats from the public eye, waiting for some real proof. He finds it in a video of oceanographer Elsa Montero dissecting a great white shark and retrieving a humanoid skull from its stomach, a DNA test of which reveals “mitochondrial DNA with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or known animal.” Tracking the shark’s swimming patterns leads Marty to the underwater caves of Demon Island, and he convinces Elsa; his girlfriend, Radhika Fernandez; his sonar technician, Pip Jobert; and reporter Jacqueline DeSilva to accompany him to investigate. But Marty never considers that the merfolk don’t want to be found. Bates supplies just enough scientific background on the evolution of marine animals to justify Martin’s zeal, but the plot tends to glide along the surface of a fascinating concept without ever diving in deep. Still, the fun expedition, eccentric characters, and B-movie style monster action make for a light, enjoyable outing. (Self-published)

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