There is definitely a “we all float down here” element to this story – there’s even a delightful little chapter about clowns *shudder*. I was so worried about the dog in this story, literally the WHOLE TIME, that it made it impossible for me to enjoy it.

There are a ton of trigger warnings here and rightfully so since Cutter takes things to such an extreme level, it adds another gruesome and disgusting level of horror to this novel. I'm trying to picture someone like Einstein or even a high school graduate behaving that way and I'm drawing a blank. This book only plays with it a bit, it quickly refocuses to people-in-a-closed-environment horror tropes. Tim crudely sets up an operating station, disinfecting poor medical equipment with whiskey, before taking a swig himself.

In a multimillion dollar Hail Mary play for the future of the species, the US government builds an underwater habitat, the Trieste, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench’s deepest rift (8 miles underwater) and send three different scientists to find, harvest, and experiment on this Ambrosia. One doctor resurfaces dead, his body a bloated, scarred, impossible horror show – with incomprehensible bloody writing on the wall of his high-pressure submarine. The problem with this is that I pretty quickly got numbed to the nuttiness and since we learned very little about what caused the nuttiness -- the pressure of the ocean, the PRESSURE! Through careful manipulation and planning, the patient was released into Falstaff Island, to allegedly test the virulence and military capabilities of the worm.

He remembers his mother’s abuse and an incident when a stinging millipede got stuck in Zach’s onesie.

Set miles beneath the surface of the ocean, the descent into the aptly named Trieste (I presume for the Spanish, “sorrow” or “sadness”) is a taxing ordeal that requires incredible skill and patience from a naval expert with nerves of steel. Described as two sexless, lumpy, deformed beings with translucent skin, growing out of a wall of undulating, living flesh. We recommend you Jainjas, a comprehensive and complete site which has more than thousand hotels or hotel apartments and has provided you comprehensive information about each of them. Luke's defining characteristic is that his five year old son disappeared in a park years ago and Luke has never recovered from that.

Well, whatever the case, Nick Cutter is doing his part penning two terrifying tales in two years, written to make grown women scream and grown men wet their pants. Luke tells his son that monsters are just figments of his imagination, but Zach misunderstands and thinks that there are Fig Men lurking in his bedroom.But now the station is incommunicado, and it's up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths . Without light to balance the dark, the book started to feel less like horror and more like torture porn. this one reminded me in all the right ways of it, with some shades of misery and also a little bit of the thing. I’ll be curious how you respond to Cutter’s other work, though, see if anything else catches my interest (besides cover art). Focusing more on that and on the ‘Gets would have been ideal, especially since that aspect of the novel got a bit lost from the halfway point on.

The underwater atmospheric writing was incredibly done and added a nice layer of claustrophobic horror to everything.At one point someone allegedly intelligent says something in an if/then context concerning "if Satan could do A then God could do B.