· The crew on board the ship must deal with supernatural beings. The fact that they were pirates in another life, is only a pretext for their blood thirsty designs. Hodgson considers his three stories, 'The House on the Borderland', 'The Boats of the Glen-Carrig' and this story as a trilogy/5(6). · Librivox, audiobooks, ghosts, ship, horror, sea, LibriVox recording of The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson. Read by Mark Nelson. 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. This is from William Hope Hodgson the British writer of the wierd and www.doorway.ru of the best "unknown"writers www.doorway.ru tale is told by a traumatised sailor and clearly gets over a sense of slowly accumulating www.doorway.ru shadow men from the sea are terrifying creations,With Hodgson's descriptive restraint allowing the reader's own imagination to do the www.doorway.ru highlights include frantic /5().
Carnacki, The Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson Download Read more. The House on the Borderland. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson Download Read more. must deal a life and death struggle with 'The Ghost Pirates' I do not consider this a pirate story in the traditional sense.. The crew on board the ship must deal with. Hodgson's background at sea lends authenticity to the shipboard life on the Mortzestus which is a great contrast to the supernatural aspects of The Ghost Pirates. The growing fear among the men is slow, palpable, and menacing. The crew are menaced by something that few of them can see and the dark nights on the ocean become alarming. The Ghost Pirates is an interesting early case of polished, ambitious, evocative literature hiding in the guise of pulp horror. Some reviewers have likened William Hope Hodgson to both Joseph Conrad and H.P. Lovecraft, and both comparisons are apt.
The Ghost Pirates is a horror novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 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. Hodgson, William Hope, Title: The Ghost Pirates Credits: Updated: The jarg. As with "The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'", William Hope Hodgson makes excellent use of his experience as a sailor, serving up an atmospheric ghost story. Apart from the nautical theme, however, "The Ghost Pirates" is a very different book from "The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'", and in some ways an inferior one.
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