It Came From Beneath the Waves: Weird Tales from the Ocean Depths

by Joanne Harris, Tim Major, Carmen Marcus

An anthology of strange sea tales from inspiring writers across the UK, including Joanne Harris's folk tale The Selkie. It Came from Beneath the Waves spans genres, with the post-apocalyptic weirdness of Carmen Marcus's Bight, Tomcat and the Moon, the contemporary horror of Tim Major's Eqalussuaq and the New Zealand set historical fiction of The King Tide by Alex Reece Abbott. The stories uncover the secrets, strangeness and peculiarity of what lies beneath the surface of everyday existence. Come and find out what lies beneath the waves!

126 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2018

About the author

Joanne Harris is also known as Joanne M. Harris

Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN!, and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television.
In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by the Queen.
Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She also spends too much time on Twitter; plays flute and bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16; and works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire.