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Brent McGregor is the author of BLOOD TIDE, and STRANGE MURMURINGS, and winner of the 2024 Asylumfest Mayday Hills Ghost Story Competition. His short fiction has appeared in Midnight Echo issues 18 and 20. He hails from Sydney, where he lives with his wife, daughter, and dogs. He grew up on Sydney’s North Shore, on the edge of the Ku-ring-Gai National Park—a creative kid, with a vivid imagination, a penchant for comics, and playing Robin Hood, or Tarzan, among the eucalypts. He used to work as a climb leader on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Now, he enjoys spinning tales of terror and make-believe. His short stories involve the supernatural, cursed garden gnomes, midnight hauntings, and cryptids, among other things. He is a self-proclaimed book ...more

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10 Nautical Horror Novels That Will Drag You Beneath the Waves

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Welcome, and thanks for joining me, Brent McGregor, horror author and devotee of the dark unknown. Today, I’m setting sail into one of my favourite horror subgenres: nautical (or marine-themed) horror. This is the realm of the deep—stories steeped in saltwater dread, shipwrecks, isolation, and the unrelenting vastness of the ocean. Rather than comparing or ranking these books, this

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	Blood Tide 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Murmurings (Strange Murmurings, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Murmurings Vol. 2: Four Horror Tales 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Murmurings: Short Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight Echo Issue 18: Cursed by J.S. Breukelaar (Goodreads Author), A.M. Joseph, Brent McGregor (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight Echo Issue 20 by Marty Young (Goodreads Author), Kirstyn McDermott (Goodreads Author), Joanne Anderton it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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