Grant plants her clues carefully, spaced apart just enough to make the reader anxiously flip the pages. You know something bad happened-it’s explained on the first page that the entire crew was lost, but you don’t know exactly what happened until the end. It gives the story a bit of foreshadowing and unsettles the reader. She divides her story up into five chapters, and each one is prefaced by a blurb from an Imagine Network documentary from the year 2017, looking back on the disaster of the Atargatis and speculating on what happened. It isn’t long before the excitement of filming turns into everybody’s worst nightmare.įor a short novella, Grant’s pacing is really good. But as the crew and visitors drop anchor and start to explore the deep waters above the Mariana Trench, people on board start to go missing. The plan is to take the ship out into deep water where little sea exploration has been done before, film the hired scientists doing their thing with water and chemical analysis, and have a troupe of professional mermaid “performers” standing by to add authenticity to the documentary. The Imagine Network has just commissioned a documentary on mermaids, and they’ve arranged to film aboard the cruise ship Atargatis. I won’t give too much of the story away, because it is very short, but here’s the set-up. Whichever way you read it, it’s a spectacular story that accomplishes big things in a tiny little package. It’s a signed and numbered edition, and as far as I know, it’s the only edition available at the moment, other than the e-book. I’m so happy I bought myself a copy of this beautiful little book from Subterranean Press. The nitty-gritty: A short but highly entertaining-not to mention terrifying-tale about the dangers of the deep.
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