The Saltwater Eulogy

About this book

At the Harrowing Institute of Maritime Epistemology, a secluded academy off the Norwegian coast, a brilliant cohort of five scholars unearths a lead-lined journal from a 1768 shipwreck. The text promises a way to transcend mortality by cataloguing every conceivable form of death. What begins as a revolutionary academic pursuit swiftly mutates into a claustrophobic nightmare of shared obsession, esoteric rituals, and erotic self-destruction. Told in strict reverse-chronology, the narrative begins on the day of ultimate ruin, stripping away the layers of betrayal and madness week by week. As the story moves backward, the reader witnesses the tragic unspooling of five formidable minds, tracing their descent from doomed cultists back to the pristine, arrogant academics they once were on the innocent afternoon the fatal object was first retrieved.

Book details

Genres:

Dark Academia, Psychological Thriller, Literary Fiction

Language:

en

Published:

2026-04-20

Content rating:

R