 First edition | |
| Author | Steve Alten |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Meg |
| Genre | Science fiction horror |
| Publisher | Headline Publishing Group |
Publication date | June 14, 2016 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback and hardback) and Audiobook |
| Pages | 448 pp (paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-7653-8796-7 (paperback) |
| Preceded by | Meg: Hell's Aquarium Vostok |
| Followed by | Meg: Generations |
Meg: Nightstalkers (known digitally as Meg⁵: Nightstalkers) is a 2016 science fiction horror novel by American author Steve Alten. It is the sequel to Vostok and Meg: Hell's Aquarium, and the fifth book in the MEG series. Continuing the adventures of Jonas Taylor and his family following the cliffhanger ending of the previous novel, as Jonas and his best friend Mac search for two rogue megalodons (megs), while Jonas' son David continues working with the royal prince of Dubai to search for the Liopleurodon that killed his girlfriend, the novel also continues the premise Meg series as being set in the same fictional universe as Alten's The Loch established in the preceding 2015 crossover novel Vostok,[1] with the return of Zachary Wallace.[2] The novel's audiobook was narrated by Keith Szarabajka,[3] with Erik Hollander designing the cover.[4]
A sequel, titled Meg: Generations, was released in 2018.
- ^ Brehmer, Nat (June 24, 2016). "Exclusive Interview: Steve Alten Talks Meg And More!". Wicked Horror. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
Nat Brehmer: Yeah, for sure. I'm also personally a big fan of The Loch and I was curious about what it was like to take something that was so infamous in pop culture and turn it into a serious work of aquatic horror? Steve Alten: Have you read Nightstalkers yet? Nat Brehmer: I have, yeah. Steve Alten: So you know that I meshed the two series together. Writing The Loch, I was originally suggested to do it by my former agent Ken Lashley, and I only wanted to do it if it wasn't going to be silly. I didn't want to do it if it was gonna be a pleisiosaur which doesn't make any sense at all. It had to be a creature that made sense scientifically and that would make for a great story. So I consulted a friend of mine who's a cryptozoologist and forensic artist Bill MacDonald and he's been to Loch Ness several times and he's the one who convinced me what the creature was. Once I had that down it was a matter of doing a lot of research, piecing together—I was very detailed about it. There are no good maps of Loch Ness. So I had to create a map based on things that were out there. I had a nine foot map taped to the wall in my office so I could track the creature's movements and the characters' movements so that they felt that they were there. Because I had never been to Loch Ness and I needed to understand what it was like. And the more research I did into it, the more I realized that this is really a cool story. There's a lot of history to this and there's also a lot of scientific method involved, that this creature could still be out there. They've sort of romanticized it in Scotland that it's this smiling, Disney-esque pleisiosaur. The reality is that it's a type of fish that's pretty menacing and has just grown very large for scientific reasons.
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WHwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Szarabajka, Keith. "Meg: Nightstalkers by Steve Alten – Audiobook". Audible.co.uk. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
- ^ Hollander, Erik (June 14, 2016). "Cover Design: Meg: Nightstalkers by Steve Alten". Erik Hollander Design. Retrieved June 14, 2016.