Frederick Marryat ~8 hr read

Philip Vanderdecken sets out to lift the curse laid on his father, the doomed captain of the Flying Dutchman, condemned to sail the seas until Judgment Day unless a holy relic can redeem him.

Frederick Marryat's 1839 novel is a classic nautical fantasy-horror retelling of the Flying Dutchman legend. Vivid, atmospheric, gripping. Read it for a full-blooded sea-romance of the great age of sail, a son's lifelong quest to redeem his accursed father, amid storms, shipwrecks, and the terror of the phantom ship.

In its time

Published in 1839, during the 1830s, poe and the german romantics.

Reading it

~8 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).