William Clark Russell 3 hr 23 min read

The tale of the accursed Flying Dutchman reaches its climax: pirates, tempests, a sprung leak, and the narrator's desperate scheme to escape the deathless ship with the mortal girl he loves.

William Clark Russell's 1888 novel (the concluding volume) is an atmospheric nautical fantasy-horror retelling of the Flying Dutchman. Vivid, dread-soaked, superbly told. Read it for the thrilling finish of a master mariner-novelist's version of the legend, the fight to break free of Vanderdecken's cursed vessel at last.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 23 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).