waterborne (w-tr-brn) - supported, carried, or transmitted by water. Water can serve as a vector for disease. or monsters. For millennia, the ocean's vastness, abyssal depth, and stygian darkness have inspired all manner of waterborne nightmares recorded by humanity in terrifying tales. The Bible mentions the sea serpent demon, Leviathan. The Norse feared the Kraken and the world serpent, Jörmungandr. Greek mythology included the murderous Cetus, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Sirens. More modern fiction and movies continued to horrify readers with the giant squid of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, H.

P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu and Dagon, The Creature from the Black Lagoon , Jaws , The Meg , The Abyss , Godzilla , and other apocalyptic additions to the pantheon of aquatic terrors. This anthology opens the floodgates even wider by imagining waterborne monsters of any size, from titanic to microscopic, lurking in bodies of water ranging from storm-tossed seas to springs, lakes, swamps, ponds, and streams. If seeing Jaws for the first time made you hesitate to swim in a pool, just wait until these monsters wrap their tentacles around you and pull you into their dark, watery domain.