Product Description

A powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #753986 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

Customer Reviews

Dark, Brooding and Restrained
William Hope Hodgson spent some years in the merchant navy in the latter end of the 19th century and this book shows it: his knowledge of the nautical way of life is very apparent throughout the book. The life at sea feels convincing in all aspects, although for the modern reader it may take a little while to get used to remembering that the hapless crew are at sea on a tall-ship.

The book opens quietly on a ship which the narrator has heard unsettling rumours about. For a while nothing happens. As odd events take place the atmosphere slowly and gradually changes- nothing so sledgehammer-like as the nightmare events of `The House on the Borderland'. The unease builds and relaxes, inexorably rising to the point where the truth behind the seas and the ship become apparent.

The latter sequences of the book are horrific and at the same time maintain the understated feel- as if being related (as they are) by someone in extreme shock.

Well worth buying, as are Hodgson's other novels.

the ghost pirates
this has got to be the worlds greatest ghost story. you'll be hooked from page one. i read this first years ago and have been trying to get a copy ever since. my daughter saw it on my bookshelf, began reading and now cant put it down. any movie makers out there, THIS WOULD MAKE A GREAT FILM!