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Tales Of Terror On The High Seas Short Stories Of Ghostly Galleons And Fearful Storms From Some Of The Finest Writers Such As Edgar Allan Poe And Si
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Book Synopsis Tales of Terror on the High Seas - Short Stories of Ghostly Galleons and Fearful Storms from Some of the Finest Writers Such as Edgar Allan Poe and Si by : Various
Download or read book Tales of Terror on the High Seas - Short Stories of Ghostly Galleons and Fearful Storms from Some of the Finest Writers Such as Edgar Allan Poe and Si written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high seas are one of the most enduring literary settings, and many of the greatest works in the Western literary canon have taken place aboard ships and galleons. Collected here are the greatest marine tales of horror and terror, featuring tales by such classic writers as Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Book Synopsis Sea Tales of Terror by : J. J.. Strating
Download or read book Sea Tales of Terror written by J. J.. Strating and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ghost Pirates (Horror Classic) by : William Hope Hodgson
Download or read book The Ghost Pirates (Horror Classic) written by William Hope Hodgson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Jessop is the only survivor of the final voyage of the Mortzestus, rescued from drowning by the crew of the passing Sangier. He begins to recount how he came to be aboard the ill-fated Mortzestus, the rumors surrounding the vessel and the unusual events that rapidly increase in both frequency and severity. He describes his confusion and uncertainty about what he believes he has seen, at times fearing for his own sanity.
Book Synopsis Island Terrors and Sea Horrors by : Ethan Nahté
Download or read book Island Terrors and Sea Horrors written by Ethan Nahté and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weather the dangerous seas! Travel to desolate, mysterious islands... Encounter strange creatures dwelling above and below the ocean's surface in Island Terrors & Sea Horrors. Within is a collection of three-dozen short stories and poetry, ranging from ancient myths to historical fiction. Travel to the ends of the map, where there be dragons, pirates, mermaids, ghost ships, and other chilling dangers from the sea and beyond. Ride the swells, endure the storms, and explore desolate isles as you delight to the terrors presented by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, H. G. Wells, Washington Irving, Sir Thomas Moore, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wilhelm Hauff, William Shakespeare, Archilochus, Larry Atchley Jr., and Ethan Nahté. Drift into the dense fog where dark, nautical tales will lure you down to Davy Jones's Locker, leaving you gasping for air.
Book Synopsis Strange Tales of the High Seas by : Osie Turner
Download or read book Strange Tales of the High Seas written by Osie Turner and published by The Forlorn Press. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains the strangest nautical tales. These are not your typical ghost stories; rather, they walk the line between science, the supernatural, and the bizarre. These stories have everything from invisible sea monsters to rabies-infected crews turning the ship into a blood bath, odd twins, and sea-worshipping Pagan captains. Rifts in time and space and even real life mysteries grace these pages. Table of Contents: The Voice in the Night From the Darkness and the Depths The Sea Fit Man Overboard! The Grain Ship Phantas The Ghost Pirates The Wreck of the Titan Appendix 1- Commentary Appendix 2- The Titan and The Titanic: When Life and Art Collide Appendix 3- A Tryst: A Poem by Celia Thaxter
Book Synopsis Fireside Horror Stories about Pirates and Ghost Ships by : M. Kellermeyer
Download or read book Fireside Horror Stories about Pirates and Ghost Ships written by M. Kellermeyer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of human history, the sea has had a lethal allure to men who stand on the shore and gaze out on the watery horizon. It has an infamous attraction - equally as engrossing as uncharted jungles, unvanquished mountains, and the black void of space - and an infamous danger. It is, then, not surprising that the sea has found very comfortable accommodations in horror literature. Some of the greatest writers of classic horror fiction have tried their hand at nautical writing: Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, W. W. Jacobs, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Washington Irving among many, many others. Some are most famous for their seafaring horrors: William Hope Hodgson is the crown prince of nautical horror stories, while the names F. Marion Crawford, W. W. Jacobs, and Robert Louis Stevenson naturally bring to mind the creaking of spars and rigging, the musk of salt air, and the sight of heaving black seas. The focus of this collection of nautical horrors is on pirates, ghost ships, and -- of course -- ghost pirates. Tales were told of ships hailed by passing vessels without reply, usually followed by uncanny deaths or accidents. When the befuddled crew reached shore, they learn that the passing ship had been reported lost months previous to their encounter. Pirates are Rorschach tests to readers and writers alike: romantic to some, humorous to others, frightening to some, aspirational to others. Yet, with only a few exceptions (Gilbert and Sullivan being one), they never entirely shed their aura of danger: even Jack Sparrow is hunted down by evil pirates, and even Captain Hook - ludicrous to adults - is the stuff of nightmares to children. They frighten us even as we envy them. For every time we find ourselves humming "Yo ho, yo ho! A pirate's life for me" something far away in the wind brings to our mind a conflicting sea shanty: "Sixteen men on a dead man's chest - yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum - drink and the devil's done for the rest - yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum..."
Book Synopsis Adrift on The Haunted Seas by : William Hope Hodgson
Download or read book Adrift on The Haunted Seas written by William Hope Hodgson and published by Cold Spring Press. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."This collection brings together the very best of his short stories, together with a sampling of his poetry. It includes a variety of his sea horrors along with two non-fantastic pieces: "On the Bridge," a journalistic story written immediately after the sinking of the Titanic which attempts to show some of the various factors which contributed to the tragedy, and the suspenseful nonfiction story "Through the Vortex of a Cyclone," which is based on Hodgson's own experiences at sea." - From the Introduction by Douglas A. Anderson"Among connoisseurs of fantasy fiction William Hope Hodgson deserves a high and permanent rank . . . Few can equal him in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and significant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and abnormal." - H. P. Lovecraft"Among those fiction writers who have elected to dealwith the shadowlandsand borderlands of human existence, William Hope Hodgson surely merits a place with the very few that inform their treatment of such themes with a sense of authenticity." - Clark Ashton Smith
Book Synopsis Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by : Chris Priestley
Download or read book Tales of Terror from the Black Ship written by Chris Priestley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a spooky seafaring adventure, fierce storms shake the sails, evil pirates pace on deck, and devilish ghosts haunt the depths of the ship in the exciting follow up to Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror.
Book Synopsis Horror on the High Seas by : William Hope Hodgson
Download or read book Horror on the High Seas written by William Hope Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Stories about phantom ships and their phantom sailors, weird encounters with spirits, vengeful sea sprites and sea serpents, and all manner of horror below decks.
Book Synopsis The Ghost Pirates (1909). By: William Hope Hodgson by : William Hope Hodgson
Download or read book The Ghost Pirates (1909). By: William Hope Hodgson written by William Hope Hodgson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost Pirates is a novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1909. The economic style of writing has led horror writer Robert Weinberg to describe The Ghost Pirates as "one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published." [1] In it, Hodgson never describes in any remarkable details the ghosts - if this is indeed what they are, since their true nature is left ambiguous - he merely reports on their gradual commandeering of the ship. "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 power." - H.P. Lovecraft.... Story The novel is presented as the transcribed testimony of Jessop, who we ultimately discover is the only survivor of the final voyage of the Mortzestus, having been rescued from drowning by the crew of the passing Sangier. It begins with Jessop's recounting how he came to be aboard the ill-fated Mortzestus and the rumors surrounding the vessel. Jessop then begins to recount the unusual events that rapidly increase in both frequency and severity. In the telling of his tale, Jessop offers only sparse interpretation of the events, spending most of the time relating the story in an almost journalistic fashion, presenting a relatively unvarnished description of the events and conversations as they occurred. He describes his confusion and uncertainty about what he believes he has seen, at times fearing for his own sanity. He eventually hears other members of the crew speak of strange events, most of which the rest of the crew pass off as either bad luck or the result of the witness being either tired or "dotty." Jessop only offers brief personal interpretation; he states that while he cannot discount the idea that the beings plaguing the ship may be ghosts, he presents his theory that they may be beings from another dimension that, while sharing the same physical space as theirs, are normally completely separated to the extent that neither dimension is aware of the existence of the other. He offers only vague, superficial suggestions as to the cause of his theorized dimensional breach..... William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 - April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the "Sargasso Sea Stories." His novels, such as The House on the Borderland (1908) and The Night Land (1912), feature more cosmic themes, but several of his novels also focus on horrors associated with the sea. Early in his writing career Hodgson dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I at age 40. Early years and life at sea: Hodgson was born in Blackmore End, Essex, the son of the Reverend Samuel Hodgson, an Anglican priest, and Lissie Sarah Brown. He was the second of 12 children, three of whom died in infancy. The death of a child is a theme in several of Hodgson's works including the short stories "The Valley of Lost Children," "The Sea-Horses," and "The Searcher of the End House." Hodgson's father was moved frequently and served 11 different parishes in 21 years, including one in County Galway, Ireland. This setting was later featured in Hodgson's novel The House on the Borderland......
Download or read book Ghost Pirates written by Tom McCarthy and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted ships and ghoulish pirates abound in this thrilling collection of some of the most exciting stories ever written. Ghost pirates swashbuckle in and out of scenes, stealing the souls of the doomed, and frightening the innocent.
Book Synopsis Spooky Sea Stories by : Charles G. Waugh
Download or read book Spooky Sea Stories written by Charles G. Waugh and published by Yankee Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features tales of ghostly ships and haunted cargoes by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Fielding, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Book Synopsis The Screaming Skull and Other Stories by : F. Marion Crawford
Download or read book The Screaming Skull and Other Stories written by F. Marion Crawford and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ghost stories only formed a small part of F. Marion Crawford's prolific output, they are the stories for which he is now best known. These four classic horror stories represent Crawford at his ghostly best. This collection includes his most renowned story 'The Upper Berth', a chilling tale about a haunted stateroom on a trans-Atlantic passenger ship which was praised by M.R. James as one of the best supernatural stories ever written. Also included are 'Man Overboard', another first-rate nautical ghost story, and 'The Screaming Skull', about a skull which once bore witness to a horrible atrocity (the tale is based on an actual legend). 1. The Screaming Skull 2. The Upper Berth 3. By the Waters of Paradise 4. Man Overboard!
Book Synopsis The Ghost Pirates by : William Hodgson
Download or read book The Ghost Pirates written by William Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost Pirates is a novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1909. The economic style of writing has led horror writer Robert Weinberg to describe The Ghost Pirates as "one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published."In it, Hodgson never describes in any remarkable details the ghosts - if this is indeed what they are, since their true nature is left ambiguous - he merely reports on their gradual commandeering of the ship."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 power."
Book Synopsis The Devil and the Deep by : Ellen Datlow
Download or read book The Devil and the Deep written by Ellen Datlow and published by Night Shade. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY Stranded on a desert island, a young man yearns for objects from his past. A local from a small coastal town in England is found dead as the tide goes out. A Norwegian whaling ship is stranded in the Arctic, its crew threatened by mysterious forces. In the nineteenth century, a ship drifts in becalmed waters in the Indian Ocean, those on it haunted by their evil deeds. A surfer turned diver discovers there are things worse than drowning under the sea. Something from the sea is creating monsters on land. In The Devil and the Deep, award-winning editor Ellen Datlow shares an all-original anthology of horror that covers the depths of the deep blue sea, with brand new stories from New York Times bestsellers and award-winning authors such as Seanan McGuire, Christopher Golden, Stephen Graham Jones, and more.
Book Synopsis The Ghost Ship and Other Stories by : Richard Middleton
Download or read book The Ghost Ship and Other Stories written by Richard Middleton and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Middleton knew that there was a puzzle; in other words, that the universe is a great mystery; and this consciousness of his is the source of the charm of 'The Ghost Ship.' I declare I would not exchange this short, crazy, enchanting fantasy for a whole wilderness of seemly novels, proclaiming in decorous accents the undoubted truth that there are milestones on the Portsmouth Road.." -Arthur Machen "Unusual, with a strange power of suggestion and a curious probing into life, are those volumes of sketches and short stories....A genius gone too young from these ways of men. 'The Ghost Ship' tells of a vessel blown by a fierce tempest into a field of turnips in a dull little town. A ship such as no man had seen for three hundred years. Strange things forthwith begin to happen in this village - the gathering and roistering of fierce piratical men drinking marvellous new drinks that seem to be blended of honey and fire. Finally, on another gale, the ship blows off again into the unknown, taking with it the village fool. An absurd fantasy you say! Yes, but read it and you will believe and wonder with the villagers. Such is the magic of Middleton's power over words and hearts." -Hearst's International "A collection of strange short stories, in many of which Death plays an uncannily puissant role....In his predilection for the melancholy and the weird, Middleton at times strongly suggests Edgar Allan Poe. If we are to believe Mr. Arthur Machen, who has written an introduction to 'The Ghost Ship' stories, all the material Middleton used in his work was 'placed in the athanor of art, in that furnace of the sages which is said to be governed with wisdom. Lead entered the burning of the fire, gold came forth from it.' Gloomy as the majority of these stories are, several included in the volume are of a delicious and satirically biting wit." -Current Literature "It is clear, direct, and unmannered...'The Ghost Ship' itself is a little masterpiece....Those who like Mr. Belloc and Mr. Chesterton should read Mr. Middleton also." -The Nation "The work of a man who knew how to give to interesting thoughts exquisite expression." -The New York Times "His stories, though they exhibit ingenuity and power, tend to the ugly, even the hideous...but they are interesting." -The Dial "Has no superior as a gently humorous fantasy." -The Outlook CONTENTS: PREFACE The Ghost-Ship A Drama Of Youth The New Boy On the Brighton Road A Tragedy In Little Shepherd's Boy The Passing of Edward The Story Of A Book The Bird In The Garden Children Of The Moon The Coffin Merchant The Soul Of A Policeman The Conjurer The Poet's Allegory And Who Shall Say----? The Biography Of A Superman Blue Blood Fate And The Artist The Great Man A Wet Day
Book Synopsis A History of Story-telling by : Arthur Ransome
Download or read book A History of Story-telling written by Arthur Ransome and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "A History of Story-telling studies in the development of narrative" examines the history of narrative and storytelling by focusing on the development of form and techniques in the narrative. The book is divided into two major sections. The first section begins with an examination of the origins of narrative and storytelling, then moves on to an analysis of the medieval poem 'The Romance of the Rose,' as well as works by Chaucer and Boccaccio. This section also looks at the Rogue Novel, the Elizabethans, and the Pastoral, as well as Cervantes and eighteenth-century authors like Fielding, Smollett, and the masculine novel. The second section examines Romanticism to various authors such as Chateaubriand and then moves on to a study of nineteenth-century literature before concluding with a note on Flaubert and De Maupassant and a general conclusion.
