#68 in Horror
What Stalks the Deep
- 176
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Lovecraft’s shoggoth gets a compact, tense reworking in “What Stalks the Deep”, the third “Sworn Soldier” novella. Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, draws loosely on “At the Mountains of Madness”, and some readers enjoy spotting the source as the series takes up one Gothic tale after another. At 176 pages, it offers cosmic horror in concentrated form.
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About the book
What Stalks the Deep is a 2025 horror novella by Ursula Vernon, writing under the pen name T. Kingfisher. It is the third novella in the Sworn Soldier series. Elements of the plot are loosely based on the shoggoth, a fictional species that appears in the novella At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.
Reading order · Sworn Soldier
Full order & progress →- What Moves the DeadStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - What Feasts at Night
7.57.5 / 10 - What Stalks the DeepThis book
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 103 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 41% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 103 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is What Stalks the Deep?
It has 176 pages — shorter than 91% of the ranked books in Horror.
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