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One of the leading names in classic weird fiction, William Hope Hodgson remains an influential and powerful storyteller, remembered chiefly for his nautical horror stories and for his occult detective, Carnacki the Ghost-finder. Hodgson’s career – cut off prematurely in World War One – was extensive and elaborate, and this book contains the cream of the crop: the Sargasso Sea Mythos, a broad selection of his best maritime horror stories, printings of his lesser known strange tales (including The Baumoff Explosive and The Goddess of Death), four of the most striking Carnacki cases, and excerpts from two of his supernatural novels. Illustrated and annotated, these stories include episodes of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery: floating stone ships, derelicts teeming with maneating rats, ghost pirates, mutant weed men, carnivorous trees, parasitic fungi, were-sharks (you read that right), a ship with a heartbeat, a cursed room that whistles in the night, a castaway who refuses to let his hideous face be seen, freakish mutations, deadly ghost ships, bloodthirsty octopi, demonic hogs, and more.

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Hodgson’s fiction reveals a level of anguished vulnerability that blends the cynical realism with fantastic romanticism, creating a borderland – a liminal doorway – that brings the anxieties of the every-day into contact with the fantasias of the nightmarish. The landscapes of his fiction – the weed-choked Sargasso Sea, the steaming South Pacific, Irish manor houses, derelict ghost ships – act as borderlands whereby these uncomfortable thoughts and existential pangs can enter into our world – to haunt and infect it. The illustrated, annotated stories included in this unique anthology – stories of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery – are among Hodgson’s best and will not fail to disturb, amuse, and inhabit your imagination.

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TALES INCLUDED in this ANNOTATED EDITION:

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The Grey Seas are Dreaming of My Death

The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder

Out of the Storm  

From the Tideless Sea

Further News from the Homebird

The Thing in the Weeds

The Finding of the Graiken

A Tropical Horror

The Mystery of the Derelict

The Derelict

The Stone Ship

Demons of the Sea

The Haunted Pampero  

Excerpts: The Boats of the 'Glenn Carrig' 

Excerpts: The Ghost Pirates  

The Voice in the Night

The Baumoff Explosive 

The Goddess of Death

The Valley of Lost Children

The Terror of the Water Tank

The Gateway of the Monster

The Horse of the Invisible  

The Searcher of the End House

The Whistling Room 

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