William Clark Russell 2 hr 30 min read

Aboard the phantom vessel of the accursed Vanderdecken, the narrator grows ever closer to the fair Imogene, even as the Flying Dutchman's ghostly crew and its doom draw them deeper into the strange.

William Clark Russell's 1888 novel (volume two) is an atmospheric nautical fantasy-horror retelling of the Flying Dutchman. Vivid, dread-soaked, superbly told. Read it for a master of sea fiction's take on the immortal legend, a living man and a mortal girl trapped aboard the deathless ship of the damned.

In its time

Published in 1888, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

2 hr 30 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).