The abyss stares back: encounters with deep-sea life

Preface

Introduction: Caring about the abyss

Animating surreal creatures a half mile down: William Beebe and Else Bostelmann

Packed up in Tupperware and Russian vodka: deep-sea science fiction and nonfiction

Counting and framing: the census of marine life

Clickbait, black void, or intimate mediation? Abyssal aesthetics after the census

Epilogue: Who cares? Calculating the value of abyssal life.