![]() ![]() A possible cure miraculously appears in the eleventh hour of our demise, and a science team is sent to an undersea facility, the Trieste, to study it. Our planet is ravaged by a new plague called the ‘Gets which causes humans to slowly forget everything until they can’t remember basic bodily functions and die. The Deep is horror of the highest concept, piling situation on top of situation until the stakes could literally not be any higher. ![]() It is a 394 page nightmare that never lets up, and from which you cannot wake, combining true human suffering with the bleak sci-fi strangeness that made H.P. This is ironic because rather than having to do with the cosmos - the indifferent reality beyond our darkest skies - the Canadian horror novel is set in the deepest depths of the Pacific ocean. Nick Cutter’s The Deep is the modern epitome of cosmic horror. ![]()
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