Jaws - As the popular Fourth of July holiday weekend approaches, a New England resort town is terrorized by a man-eating great white shark. Due to the risk to human life, Chief Brody demands the beaches be closed, but the mayor overrules him due to the impact to the town’s economy. Setting sail with two other men, Brody embarks on a dangerous mission to kill the beast.
With the temperature rising, and the summer movie season heating up, we thought it would be fun to return to the original summer blockbuster from 1975 and offer some picks that will make you think twice before going in the water…or outside!
Along with Peter Benchley’s original novel, which is highly recommended, here are even more thrilling novels that feature man vs nature and are perfect for a summer scare…
A terrified four-year-old boy sees his bedroom closet door swing open untouched by human hands, and screams at the unholy red eyes gleaming in the darkness. The little Maine town of Castle Rock is about to be invaded by the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour the mind.
The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone
Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government “accidentally” drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. As these incidents begin to sweep the globe, a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington, D.C. laboratory. Something wants out.
What Lurks Beneath by Ryan Lockwood
A sun-soaked playground for sea-loving tourists. A human feasting ground for whatever lurks beneath. Now, in a desperate race against time, Eric Watson, an expert on remote control underwater vehicles, and marine biologist Valerie Martell must identify a savage new species of killer–and piece together one of nature’s most horrific mysteries.
The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico as, on an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group–the young German, who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig. This is what happens from the moment the searchers–moving into the wild interior–begin to suspect that there is an insidious, horrific “other” among them…
Annihilation (Book 1 in the Southern Reach Trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer
Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition, consisting of four women, hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever. But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world.
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