Thalassophobia
By John Durgin
2025
First Published
3.52
Average Rating
21
Number of Pages
Mike Lynch just wants to make his newly wed wife happy. That's why he agrees to go on a snorkeling excursion with their best friends while on vacation for their destination wedding. Mike was too embarrassed to tell her about his fears of the ocean, about how he almost drowned as a teen and got crippling anxiety anytime he went too far out in deep water. When their innocent day out on the boat gets interrupted by a predator below, he will soon need to put his fear behind him if he wants to save his wife and friends from a deadly shark attack.
Avg Rating
3.52
Number of Ratings
21
5 STARS
24%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
10%
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Author
John Durgin
Author · 11 books
John is a proud HWA member and lifelong horror fan who decided to chase his childhood dream of becoming a horror author. Growing up in New Hampshire, he discovered Stephen King much younger than most probably should have, reading IT before he reached high school—and knew from that moment on he wanted to write horror. He co-founded Livid Comics in late 2020, co-creating and writing his debut comic titled Jol (pronounced Yule), a Christmas horror series for all ages. After publishing that, the itch to expand his writing was one he had to scratch. Through Livid, he wrote his second comic due to be released this winter titled Dead Ball. John also co-launched a podcast called The Livid Comics Lair, where they talk with many of todays best horror authors, comic creators, and all things that go bump in the night like UFO and paranormal investigators. His true passion was always to write horror novels, and in 2021 he started submitting short stories in hopes of getting noticed in the horror community and launching a career. He had his first story accepted in the summer of 2021 in the Books of Horror anthology, and an alternate version of the story in the Beach Bodies anthology from DarkLit Press. His debut novel, The Cursed Among Us released in June of 2022. His second novel, Inside The Devil's Nest releases through D&T Publishing in January of 2023.
