I’m about 1/4 of the way in, and obsessively enjoying it. I would like more books in the same vein.
I love the mockumentary turned real basis, cryptid horror. My favorite ecological horror is either water or forest based (but not usually fungus related). Paranormal or humanity, doesn’t matter.
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Oh! Devolution by Max Brooks. A community of rich people are trying to “have it all” while living “off grid”, but are cut off from civilization when Mt Rainier erupts. Everything gets worse when the group starts getting picked off by some kind of giant hominid from the woods. It’s Bigfoot survival horror and like Into the Drowning Deep, it has a good foothold in science alongside the fiction. The epistolary style isn’t far off from a mockumentary.
You may also like Fragment by Walter Frey. It’s similar in that it starts with a reality TV crew at sea. Rather than hungry mermaids, they find an alien ecosystem on earth so ferocious that normal earth life is devoured in seconds. Once the tv crew has been mostly eaten, a team of scientists are sent in, but they continue to underestimate the life on the island.