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Dreaming Deep Kindle Edition

by Anonymous-9 (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
By the Winner of two Readers’ Choice Awards from The House of Crime & Mystery...

The Story
The hardworking men and women at the Port of Long Beach, California have no idea what’s waiting for them in the deep water. Tugboat Captain Ed Angelus discovers the horror first in a death match aboard the Lady Bulldog, a high-tech z-drive vessel. But when the Coast Guard and Homeland Security arrive on the scene, there’s no trace, and Ed is declared delusional and unfit for duty. A few months later Ed’s former crewmen dredge up something chilling from the depths of Alamitos Bay—something horrific and possibly paranormal. Soon, the truth turns into ugly lies by authorities unwittingly manipulated by a dirty bureaucrat masterminding the investigation. Overnight, Ed finds himself a public enemy at the center of extraterrestrial black ops—outrunning the law until he can warn the world.

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“With characters you care about and unpredictable twists aplenty, Dreaming Deep is so fun, fast-moving and compelling that I read this start-to-finish in a packed subway car in New York City, at rush hour, stuck in a tunnel—and didn’t even notice how uncomfortable I must’ve been—I was dreaming too deep. Anonymous-9 writes with such a skilled mix of realistic detail and poetic atmosphere that the uncanny events seem to unfold before your eyes, leaving you more witness than reader. There’s no way you won’t enjoy it.”
—Erik T. Johnson, author of The Chapman Delirium and winner of Written Backwards’ DRAWA Voice Award

"Dreaming Deep is full of love and terror in equal measure... a powerful opening salvo in what promises to be a dynamite series. H.P. Lovecraft would have approved."
—Charles Gramlich, author of In the Language of Scorpions

"Lovecraftian fiction does not normally mesh well with crime—cold logic and straight facts explode on contact with the ineffable, the impossible, and the tentacular. But this time, it's an explosion you can enjoy."
—Nick Mamatas, Bram Stoker Award nominee and author of Move Under Ground and The Nickronomicon

"It left me thinking about Kafka’s Gregor Samsa and The X-Files—a tantalizing mix."
—S.W. Lauden, BadCitizenCorporation blogspot

"Whether you wish to acknowledge it or not; we live in a world inhabited, run, choreographed and enforced by a real live Cthulhu... It knows no sex, no state of origin and no political party. It is a leviathan... created by our own government out of an ignorance of ideas. This book is not only entertaining but it is thought provoking and brave... something literature and our culture have sorely missed. Buy this book."
—Joseph Patchen, LuridLit
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00VGW0SOY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Uncanny Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.6 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1628980066
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    4.1 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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Hi there and thanks for checking out my author page. I live in California, party in Texas, and trace my DNA back to Vikings in Scotland. Tragic, comic and hardboiled are words that apply to my work. Click and watch video trailers to the right of this page.

Once in a while I send a newsletter so Sid can say hello. (I think he pronounces it "Ook") So please go to my Contact page at www.anonymous-9.com and join Hard Bite Nation. You will receive infrequent criminal delights, occasional prize drawings, and news, of course.

NEW BOOK APRIL 1ST, '15: DREAMING DEEP from Uncanny Books. Captain Ed Angelus' son went missing over a year ago from a dock in Long Beach, California. Ed can't stop night searching--out on that black water looking for Teddy. Obsessed, he steals a high-tech tugboat for a few hours and what he finds out there in the deep water changes everything... This 16,000-word novelette is a tribute to horror master H.P. Lovecraft and a well-deserved nod to the hard-working men and women at the Port of Long Beach, CA.

These books are current:

CRASHING THROUGH MIRRORS

BITE HARDER

JUST SO YOU KNOW I'M NOT DEAD (three short stories)

HARD BITE (novel, paperback and Kindle)

THE 1ST SHORT STORY COLLECTION

DREAMING DEEP (coming soon from Uncanny Books)

HARD BITE was named one of the Top Five Debut Novels 2013 by MYSTERYPEOPLE (Book People), the biggest indie bookstore in the Southwest (Austin, Texas), and won a Readers Choice Award 2012 from the House of Crime and Mystery (Canada). The sequel BITE HARDER also won a 2014 Readers' Choice Award. The short stories have been very well reviewed and in 2009 my work won Best Short Story on the Web by Spinetinger Mag. Other notables are 2 Thriller Award nominations sponsored by the International Thriller Writers and 2 Derringer nominations sponsored by The Short Mystery Fiction Society.

www.anonymous-9.com Twitter @_Anonymous_9 , Goodreads and Facebook

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  • William C. Rasmussen
    3.0 out of 5 stars A "Shallow" Novelette, Despite Its "Deep" Moniker
    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2015
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    Kinda surprised by all of the glowing reviews for Anonymous 9's latest tale, Dreaming Deep. Sure, it was decently written; sure, it was interesting in the way it evoked Lovecraft, et al; sure, it looks to be a promising series--but not that much happened in this opening segment! And going into this tale, I thought it would at least have a sense of closure! Ah well, read and learn, I guess. Not bad at all, but certainly not worth a plethora of 5-star reviews. Although, I am intrigued enough to look for its sequel, because I'd like to know what Ed is getting himself into. Recommended, but just.
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  • csmz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Always expect something completely different from this author!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2015
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    I never know which genre I am going to be reading when I pick up this author. Dreaming Deep is another departure and a tribute to Lovecraft. I have never read Lovecraft but may have to now. The tug boat captain was a very sympathtic and believable character. I really felt his pain and confusion but most of all - determination. It was so fast paced that it ended before I was ready. I can hardly wait for his saga to continue.
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  • BigAl
    4.0 out of 5 stars Dreaming Deep
    Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2015
    I’m going to guess that fans of H.P. Lovecraft (who I’ve never read, although I at least recognize the name) will pick up on subtle things in Dreaming Deep that flew right past me. It was a good read, regardless. As the author explains in an explanation at the book’s conclusion, it started as a short story in a collection that was a tribute to Lovecraft (later available as a standalone short called Just So You Know I’m Not Dead) and now expanded to novelette length.

    Although it has horrific elements, as you’d expect due to the Lovecraft-ian origin, Dreaming Deep reads like a thriller as much as a typical horror story. I found it an intriguing thought experiment. I don’t want to give details not in the book description, so need to be vague, but consider the possibility that things happen to you which if you talk about them would be interpreted as a sign that you’re insane. However, they’re really happening. How do you react? How do you deal with it? A short, fast-paced read that comes to a satisfying conclusion, while setting up for more to come.

    **Originally written for "Books and Pals" book blog. May have received a free review copy. **
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  • josephjpatchen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2015
    This novelette is an extension of the short story published in the collection titled JUST SO YOU KNOW I’M NOT DEAD in 2014; a collection this reviewer praised at lurid-lit.com.

    I fell in love with the Moby Dick / Lovecraft inspired tale in its shorter form. I found the first H. P. homage to be creative, modern, gritty and emotional. It was the story of a father’s love for his son and the revenge he seeks. So I wondered as I opened this telling, how can one improve on something so tight, so complete and so very well crafted?

    I mean really.

    Well, we are talking Anonymous-9 so think in terms of another short story retold longer; think Ray Bradbury’s “The Fireman” and “Fahrenheit 451”.

    This novelette is a classic. This tale is even creepier than its predecessor making it more Lovecraftian and a greater homage to the legendary scribe. This tale is even more suspenseful making it an instant page turner that can be read just as quickly and as “addict-fully” as the original.

    The tale is stouter, multi-tentacled and multi-layered. While we still get to the climax between our hero and the Great God, we get there from a different angle and find their throw-down carries much more at stake and perhaps this battle is a mere skirmish leaving nothing resolved for the moment.

    And yet there is an indication this may be a dream.

    The story brilliantly walks that line much the way Lovecraft himself scribbled. Worlds in paralleled collision that’s what we see. In other words, the story is deep, hence the title; ‘smirk’, ‘smirk’…..

    But it’s not that simple. And this telling and re-telling is much more complex beyond the creative plot. True this is a whale of a great tale and before I implore you to buy this book, let us delve deeper into the inspiring nightmare.

    This is a bit of a departure for this column but is long overdue, especially with George Orwell’s musings to be proven correct; all of course, under the guise of ‘fairness and freedom’. So please understand that the views expressed are mine solely and well, not so solely; the views expressed are that of Anonymous-9 and mine following a discussion as to the meaning of her amazing tale. Views I should say I thought I sensed but was hesitant to expand on.

    Whether you wish to acknowledge it or not; we live in a world inhabited, run, choreographed and enforced by a real live Cthulhu. Our monster is more institutional and more formal. It knows no sex, no state of origin and no political party. It is a leviathan but no less tentacled than a societal convention and mythos created by our own government out of an ignorance of ideas.

    DREAMING DEEP is a story set against an institutional backdrop where the idea of the monster is not only ridiculed but considered dangerous enough for freedom to be lost. It is in the best interest for the protagonist to cease having such ‘dreams’ so that his reality is altered by thought police in white coats until he complies. The interaction and regulation of what is socially acceptable rather than what is real carries the day for an aloof ruling class that knows better than one’s eyes.

    A muse doesn’t have to be pretty with long flowing hair, supple lips and doe eyes. A muse needs to incite; a muse needs to awaken ideas within an artist and beckon an artist to bravely present those ideas in an entertaining way.

    This book is not only entertaining but it is thought provoking and brave. This book is something literature and our culture have sorely missed.

    Buy this book.
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  • Mathew Tavendale
    5.0 out of 5 stars Into the depths of darkness.....
    Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2015
    I'm not sure what's more sinister - the depths of the ocean or the depths of the mind!

    When you go for a swim in the sea you try not to think about all the other creatures you're sharing the water with. You know they are in there and you simply hope that they don't brush past your leg. Your mind can play tricks on you when you don't know what's swimming around below you. Anxiety builds and before long, panic can set in - that growing panic, and what it can do to your mind, is brilliantly captured in this new effort from Anonymous9 aka Elaine Ash.

    The terror that exists in this story comes from the heartfelt and tragic search a Father undertakes for his missing child. Building characters like these, and forming that sense of darkness in so few pages can't be easy as the author has made it look. This is a quick read and is one of those books that makes you hug your kids that little bit tighter.

    I knew of HP Lovecraft prior to reading this but wasn't really familiar with his work. At the end of this novella I was left wanting to know more of Lovecarft and was definitely left hanging for more Anonymous9. You'll want to read this with the lights on, and probably as far away from the ocean as you can get!
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  • 3 no 7
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great quick-read story.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2015
    This is a great quick-read story. I finished it in one sitting, both because the length was easy to manage AND because I was hooked from the start. The combination of reality, corruption, and supernatural makes for lots of action and suspense in its few pages. The descriptions are so complete that I can almost feel the salt-water spray on my face.; I loved it, but I wonder – what is really out there in Alamitos Bay?
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    4.0 out of 5 stars California Dreaming
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 2, 2015
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    Not a genre I would usually opt for but when it's one of my favourite authors I gave it a go. And I'm glad I did! An interesting read from cover to cover and one I would heartily recommend
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