Adrift on the haunted seas : the best short stories of William Hope Hodgson / edited and with an introduction by Douglas A. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodgson, William Hope, 1877-1918.

Contributor:

Anderson, Douglas A. (Douglas Allen), 1959-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sea stories, English.

Sea poetry, English.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

243 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cold Springs Harbor, NY : Cold Springs Press, [2005]

Summary:

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) is acknowledged as one of the undisputed masters of the sea story. There has never been a collection of his very best short stories offered to the trade. Hodgson's sea stories have unusual authenticity owing to his having spent a lot of time on merchant's ships-he left his family in 1890 at the age of thirteen to spend eight years at sea, where the experience of mistreatment, poor pay, and worse food was contrasted by Hodgson's immeasurable fascination with the sea. His obsession for the sea fills his writings. This volume collects the very best of Hodgson's sea stories-which has not been done before-with some of the most exciting and dramatic creatures of fantasy on the written page, exhibiting the sea in all her moods: wonder, mystery, beauty, and terror.

Contents:

On the bridge

Voice in the night

Verse : grey seas are dreaming of my death

Voice in the dawn

Haunted Jarvee

From the tideless sea (First part)

From the tideless sea (Second part)

Derelict

Wild man of the sea

Verse : the place of storms

Haunted Pampero

Adventure of the deep waters

Demons of the sea

Through the vortex of a cyclone

Finding of the Graiken

Tropical horror

Verse : thou living sea

Mystery of the derelict

Stone ship

Shamraken homeward-bounder

Verse : farewell.

ISBN:

1593600496

9781593600495

OCLC:

62245492