Under Arctic Ice

Kenneth Torrance spent months in a sanitarium for insisting he'd encountered intelligent sealmen beneath the Arctic ice. When the submarine Peary vanishes somewhere in that same frozen wilderness, the world calls it an accident. Torrance knows better. Just released from confinement and facing a skeptical establishment, he pilots a makeshift torpoon into waters no human was meant to navigate. Below the ice, he finds the Peary trapped not by ice but by the sealmen themselves, ancient enemies who remember every human slight and now want blood. With the crew's oxygen failing and the sealmen circling, Torrance must devise a desperate plan involving explosives, timing, and a hatred that spans generations. This is early pulp adventure at its most bracing: a man fighting against institutional doubt, deadly creatures, and the crushing indifference of the Arctic itself. The science fiction is wonderfully odd, the stakes viscerally real. For readers who want their adventures tense, their premises strange, and their protagonists willing to crash planes into ice to prove they weren't crazy.