The Mermaid’s Tide

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The Mermaid’s Tide
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  • Graphic sexual violence
  • Child harm
  • Torture
  • Self-harm
  • Murder
  • Psychological trauma
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Selene Vasquez
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The
Mermaid’s
Tide
Selene Vasquez // SV-001
Psychological Horror · Literary Fiction

The Mermaid’s
Tide

A novel by Selene Vasquez

The summer Lila turned ten, the sea was especially kind. It would not stay that way. Beginning in the warmth of a perfect childhood — salt air, bacon sandwiches, a father who called her mermaid — The Mermaid’s Tide follows one woman’s journey from the light of an idyllic coastal summer into the long, dark years that follow. Literary horror at its most unsparing. This is not a book that looks away.
Years later, in places without windows, she would remember that day perfectly. She would remember it, and she would not cry. But that was later.
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“The darkest stories are the ones that start in the light.”

Selene Vasquez writes psychological horror that doesn’t flinch. Stories that begin somewhere warm and recognisable — childhood summers, quiet towns, ordinary lives — and follow their characters into the places most fiction refuses to go.

The horror in these books is not supernatural. It is human. It is the slow corruption of safety, the violence that hides in plain sight, the long aftermath of things that should never have happened. Written with unflinching honesty for readers who want literature that takes darkness seriously.

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