
As a plague of forgetting spreads around the world, a substance found eight miles down in the Mariana Trench may cure it, and the veterinarian Luke Nelson is sent down to the research station there, where his estranged brother has stopped answering.
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Seven years after the ship Atargatis vanished in the Mariana Trench while filming a mockumentary about mermaids, the same network sends a new expedition, and the marine scientist Tory Stewart, whose sister was aboard, signs on.

Five fourteen-year-old Boy Scouts and their scoutmaster are camping on a remote island off Prince Edward Island when an emaciated stranger arrives carrying something that begins to get inside them, in Lord of the Flies crossed with body horror.

Eighteen months after a sickness called the Tox struck the Raxter School for Girls on an island off the coast of Maine, the survivors live under quarantine as their bodies change in terrible ways, and when Hetty's best friend Byatt goes missing, she breaks the rules to find her.

Norman Johnson, a psychologist, is flown to the middle of the Pacific to join scientists sent to a habitat a thousand feet down, where the navy has found a huge spacecraft that has been on the seabed for three hundred years.

In the small coastal town of Kurouzu-cho, teenager Kirie Goshima watches her neighbours become obsessed with spirals, starting with her boyfriend's father, as the pattern takes hold of the town in ever stranger and more horrible ways.

Four young Americans on holiday in Cancún agree to help a German tourist find his brother, who went off to an archaeological dig in the jungle and has not come back.

Robert Luczak, an American poet and editor, travels to Calcutta with his Indian wife and their baby daughter to collect a new manuscript by M. Das, a celebrated Bengali poet believed to have died years before.

A secret military project to engineer soldiers from a virus found in the Bolivian jungle needs one more subject, six-year-old Amy Harper Bellafonte, and FBI agent Brad Wolgast, sent to bring her in, cannot go through with it, just as the experiment escapes its lab.

Travel journalist Lo Blacklock, shaken by a break-in at home, joins the maiden voyage of a small luxury cruise ship in the North Sea, and in the night she hears a woman go overboard from the cabin next door, though no one is missing.

Charlie and her girlfriend Eve are renovating an old house they bought cheaply, and when a family knocks one evening asking to look around the home the father grew up in, Charlie lets them in, and they do not seem to want to leave.

Seven-year-old Wen and her fathers, Eric and Andrew, are on holiday at a remote lakeside cabin in New Hampshire when four strangers carrying homemade weapons arrive and tell them they must make an unthinkable choice to prevent the end of the world.

Robert Neville may be the last man alive in Los Angeles after a plague turned everyone else into vampires; by day he hunts them and searches for the cause, and by night he barricades himself in his house while they call for him to come out.