The Ghost Pirates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodgson, William Hope.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 1909.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft ""The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of...

Contents:

Title; Contents; The Ghost Pirates; Author's Preface; The Hell O! O! Chaunty; I The Figure Out of the Sea; II What Tammy the 'Prentice Saw; III The Man Up the Main; IV The Fooling with the Sail; V The End of Williams; VI Another Man to the Wheel; VII The Coming of the Mist and that Which it Ushered; VIII After the Coming of the Mist; IX The Man Who Cried for Help; X Hands that Plucked; XI The Search for Stubbins; XII The Council; XIII The Shadow in the Sea; XIV The Ghost Ships; XV The Great Ghost Ship; XVI The Ghost Pirates; Appendix - The Silent Ship

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77556-941-1

OCLC:

589153992