Tide of the Unclean - Paperback

The sea has always swallowed humanity's waste.

This time, it answers back.

When perfectly preserved bodies begin washing ashore in a coastal town-faces sealed in translucent plastic, smiling as if embalmed by the tide-the residents assume an anomaly. An accident. A tragedy. But the ocean keeps returning more, each one cleaner, more deliberate, more complete.

As microplastics infiltrate bloodstreams, dreams, and thought itself, the town begins to change. Trash becomes relic. Pollution becomes ritual. Shrines rise from garbage, and a movement forms that calls itself purification. What was once contamination becomes communion.

Mara Kell, one of the few who resists the pull, watches as neighbors embrace preservation over decay, certainty over fear, sealing over flesh. The sea is no longer just polluted-it is learning structure, worship, and shape. And what it is becoming does not want to drown humanity.

It wants to preserve it.

Tide of the Unclean is a gothic, psychologically devastating horror novel about environmental collapse, mass devotion, and the terrifying comfort of surrender. Lyrical, grotesque, and eerily prophetic, it explores what happens when humanity's waste is no longer discarded-but answered.

Because the ocean remembers everything we tried to forget.