Somewhere Beneath Those Waves is a collection of speculative fiction short stories by American writer Sarah Monette.

[1] Publishers Weekly calls the book "a powerful collection" whose "lyrical tales vacillate between despair and hope" and "touch on such weighty topics as the substantial consequences of saving the world, or how ghosts eventually out their killers with frightening results for those who hear and see the revelations."

), spanning an emotional gamut from the desolate to the uplifting, often united by their focus on people who have been othered or made outsiders in their society.

... Issues of gender, sexuality, class, and able-ness permeate Monette's short fiction; trauma and recovery, too, are common themes."

Whether the subject is Lovecraftian urban fantasy, parodic science fiction, or classic horror, Monette's prose is precise and vividly complex, often poetic."