Name: The Boats of the Glen Carrig
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Author: Hodgson, William Hope
ISBN: 9781798137291

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Hope Hodgson

Publisher

Independently Published

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781798137291

Synopsis "The Boats of the Glen Carrig"

The novels and short stories of William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918), though almost entirely unknown during his lifetime, have become some of the most influential early works in fields of literature as diverse as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Among his small body of longer fiction is "The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig, '" a curious narrative of weird menace and strange adventure on the high seas. Imitating the popular travelogues of the age of exploration, the narrative concerns the adventures of a group of castaways-first, upon a strange land where even the vegetation is a dreadful enemy, and later in the famous Sargasso Sea of legend, a place of ancient derelicts, deadly cephalopods, and the mysterious and sinister "weed-men." Mesembria Press is proud to present a new edition of William Hope Hodgson's "The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig, '" newly annotated to clarify some of the book's obscure nautical terminology, as well as provide additional insight into the author's unique imaginative vision.

William Hope Hodgson

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He was born in 1875, son of a clergyman from Essex, and from an early age he went to sea as a crew member on merchant ships. However, Hodgson detested that life, and as soon as he had the chance, he left it to engage in other work and to write stories full of mystery, terror, and adventure, many of them set at sea, a dangerous sea filled with monstrous entities and abandoned ships. Although Hodgson's work remained forgotten for years due to his early death in France during World War I, cutting short his literary career, authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, who spoke enthusiastically about his supernatural novel The House on the Borderland (in this same collection), or Clark Ashton Smith claimed him as a master (along with Ambrose Bierce and others) of the emerging American school of Supernatural Horror.

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