![]() ![]() Lovecraft observed, "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." Read moreĪnother horror/fantasy blend. ![]() Horror author Robert Weinberg noted the occult classic's compact prose style, hailing it as "one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published." And no less an authority than H. Rich in nautical language and lore, it combines an intriguing view of shipboard life with a suspenseful ghost story. The desperate crew's chilling fate is recounted in this compulsive page-turner by William Hope Hodgson, a master of seafaring yarns. But a dense mist descends around the ship, threatening to swallow the craft and its men without a trace. The frightened sailors, convinced that supernatural powers are afoot, plot mutiny and demand to be set ashore. Two weeks out of port the rigging suddenly goes slack, a ghostly form arises from the sea, and shadows thicken around the vessel. The Mortzestus is reputed to be haunted but the crew dismisses the rumors as preposterous - at first. ![]()
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