William Hope Hodgson 3 hr 33 min read

Something is wrong aboard the sailing ship Mortzestus, a creeping dread of shapes half-seen in the rigging, of the sea itself turning strange, as an unearthly menace closes in on the doomed vessel.

William Hope Hodgson's 1909 novel completes his great sea-horror trilogy. Atmospheric, dread-soaked, superbly told. Read it for a masterwork of nautical terror, a ship besieged by things from beyond the edge of the world, mounting to one of the most harrowing climaxes in all of weird fiction.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 33 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).