The splash from something enormous resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. . . Abandon the safety of the familiar with 10 nerve-wracking episodes of horror penned by master of atmosphere and suspense, William Hope Hodgson. From encounters with abominations at sea to fireside tales of otherworldly forces recounted by occult detective Carnacki, this new selection offers the most unsettling of Hodgson's weird stories, guaranteed to terrorize the steeliest of constitutions.
The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson
The stories are reproduced in chronological order according to year of publication, making this perhaps the definitive edition of William Hope Hodgson's weird oceanic tales.
Two weeks out of port, a haunted ship is becalmed and surrounded by a dense mist. A master of seafaring yarns recounts the crew's chilling fate in this compulsive page-turner.
Classic Weird Sea Tales, selected by David A. Sutton. With stories by William Hope Hodgson, F. Marion Crawford, Vernon Lee and others. Cover art by Jim Pitts.
He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft.
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Many of his poems were published by his widow in two posthumous collections, but some 48 poems were not published until their appearance in the 2005 collection The Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson.
Illustrated and annotated, these stories include episodes of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery: floating stone ships, derelicts teeming with man-eating rats, ghost pirates, mutant weed men, carnivorous trees, parasitic fungi, ...
Long before the supernatural detectives at the center of television shows such as Medium and The Ghost Whisperer hit the airwaves, there was "detective of the occult" Thomas Carnacki, the fictional detective created by William Hope Hodgson, ...
84 Silence's superior abilities may be down to his training, but he also values intuition, and surrounds himself with servants and staff who possess it (including Hubbard in “The Nemesis of Fire” and “The Camp of the Dog,” and Barker in ...