Name: The Boats of Glen Carrig
SKU: 61653670
Price: 357.00 ZAR
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Author: Squid ; Hodgson, William Hope
ISBN: 9781546336082

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Hope Hodgson

Introduction by

Squid

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

198

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.1 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781546336082

Synopsis "The Boats of Glen Carrig"

The bizarre and eerie odyssey of the men of The Boats of Glen Carrig is an early 20th century masterpiece of mysterious horror. Ship wrecked and destitute in the unknown, they must struggle against the uncanny land of lonesomeness and a savage enemy whose very existence defies description. "HP Lovecraft really liked his stuff" William Hope Hodgson's death in World War I cut short his writing career. First published in 1907, now reprinted in its entirety with introduction by bugs crawling out of people founder Squid.

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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