Adrift on The Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson

Edited by Douglas A. Anderson.

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) is acknowledged as one of the undisputed masters of the sea story. This is the first time a collection of his finest short stories have been brought together in one volume. Hodgson's sea stories have an unusual authenticity, owing to his having spent eight years at sea, where the experience of mistreatment, poor conditions, and worse food was only abated by his immeasurable fascination with the sea and all its glory. This unique collection will bring readers face to face with some of the most exciting and dramatic sea tales ever put to paper – from fantastic and terrible creatures to the ever-changing mood of the powerful seas.

Contents:

• Introduction by Douglas A. Anderson
• On the Bridge
• The Voice in the Night
• The Grey Seas Are Dreaming of My Death (poem)
• Out of the Storm
• The Voice in the Dawn
• The Haunted Jarvee
• From the Tideless Sea (aka From the Tideless Sea Part One)
• From the Tideless Sea (aka From the Tideless Sea Part Two: Further News of the Homebird)
• The Derelict
• The Wild Man of the Sea
• The Place of Storms (poem)
• The Haunted Pampero
• An Adventure of the Deep Waters
• Demons of the Sea
• Through the Vortex of a Cyclone (essay)
• The Finding of the Graiken
• A Tropical Horror
• Thou Living Sea (poem)
• The Mystery of the Derelict
• The Stone Ship
• The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder
• Farewell (poem)