From Below
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- ¥450
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
