There Be Monsters: Deep Down is available today on Amazon in Kindle ebook and 6×9 paperback — the second full collection in the There Be Monsters series.
Thirteen stories. One direction: down. Into water, into rock, into the caves and drowned places built to keep people out, and into the parts of a person their own family never sees.
What Is There Be Monsters: Deep Down About?
Deep Down is a 13-story horror anthology about depth — what happens when people go looking for the bottom of something and find it’s occupied. Each story follows a different account of someone who ignored a warning that turned out to be true.
Then and Now, the first collection in the series, kept its monsters close to the surface — in the familiar world, in places readers already had reasons to be. Deep Down goes further than that book did, into locations built to be entered once and not questioned.
A sample of what’s waiting in the collection:
- A sister recovers her drowned brother’s final dive footage and learns he wasn’t afraid of what took him.
- A Navy SEAL team boards a drifting ship expecting pirates and finds eight hundred people who tore each other apart from the inside.
- Below a Belizean blue hole, something older than the water waits exactly where the light gives out.
What Makes This Collection Different From Then and Now?
Deep Down pushes further into an inhuman narrative voice — several stories are told from a perspective that experiences the world in a way that is internally coherent and externally wrong. That’s the collection’s core structural idea, and it’s what separates it from a standard monster anthology.
The monstrous in these stories isn’t positioned as an outside threat opposing human characters. It functions as an extension of human nature — the part that the ordinary world has no category for, that has nowhere else to go, and that goes down instead. Three things carry that idea through the book:
- Every story is a recovered account, not a narrated legend — something that happened to a specific person who believed the warning didn’t apply to them.
- The horror predates the humans who find it. Nothing in this collection was summoned. It was already there, waiting in a place with no relationship to time the way people experience it.
- The archive format continues from Then and Now. Grimbard doesn’t appear in the stories — only collects and orders them, the way the There Be Monsters series has worked since the first book.
Where Can You Buy There Be Monsters: Deep Down?
There Be Monsters: Deep Down is available now on Amazon in Kindle ebook and paperback, and it’s enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. Because it’s part of KDP Select, the ebook is Amazon-exclusive for now — it won’t appear on Gumroad or any other storefront.
| Format | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kindle ebook | Amazon | Included with Kindle Unlimited |
| 6×9 paperback | Amazon | Same listing, print edition |
Who Is T. P. Grimbard?
T. P. Grimbard collects warnings for a living — the kind that used to be posted at the edge of a map, before maps stopped admitting there was an edge. Every account in the There Be Monsters series is presented the way it was found: as something that happened to someone who thought the warning didn’t apply to them. The archive is always growing. It has never once gotten smaller.
If you’re the type of reader who finishes a Deep Down story and immediately wants to know what else waits in dark water, Boxcar Children was many horror readers’ first taste of kids finding things adults had stopped looking for — and it holds up as a surprisingly good gateway into the genre.
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