كتاب Adrift on the Haunted Seas

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) is acknowledged as one of the undisputed masters of the sea story. There has never been a collection of his very best short stories offered to the trade. Hodgson's sea stories have unusual authenticity owing to his having spent a lot of time on merchant's ships-he left his family in 1890 at the age of thirteen to spend eight years at sea, where the experience of mistreatment, poor pay, and worse food was contrasted by Hodgson's immeasurable fascination with the sea. His obsession for the sea fills his writings. This volume collects the very best of Hodgson's sea stories-which has not been done before-with some of the most exciting and dramatic creatures of fantasy on the written page, exhibiting the sea in all her moods: wonder, mystery, beauty, and terror."This collection brings together the very best of his short stories, together with a sampling of his poetry. It includes a variety of his sea horrors along with two non-fantastic pieces: "On the Bridge," a journalistic story written immediately after the sinking of the Titanic which attempts to show some of the various factors which contributed to the tragedy, and the suspenseful nonfiction story "Through the Vortex of a Cyclone," which is based on Hodgson's own experiences at sea." - From the Introduction by Douglas A. Anderson "Among connoisseurs of fantasy fiction William Hope Hodgson deserves a high and permanent rank . . . Few can equal him in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and significant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and abnormal." - H. P. Lovecraft "Among those fiction writers who have elected to deal with the shadowlands and borderlands of human existence, William Hope Hodgson surely merits a place with the very few that inform their treatment of such themes with a sense of authenticity." - Clark Ashton Smith
وليم هوب هودسون - وليم هوب هودسون (بالإنجليزية: William Hope Hodgson)‏ (15 نوفمبر 1877، إسكس في المملكة المتحدة - 19 أبريل 1918، يبر في بلجيكا)؛ كاتب، مصور وروائي بريطاني. ❰ له مجموعة من الإنجازات والمؤلفات أبرزها ❞ The House on the Borderland and Other Novels ❝ ❞ The Finding of the Graiken ❝ ❞ The Dream of X ❝ ❞ The Stone Ship ❝ ❞ The Derelict ❝ ❞ The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' ❝ ❞ Das Haus im Grenzland: Phantastischer Science-Fiction-Roman - Neu-Übersetzung ❝ ❞ Tropical Horror ❝ ❞ Hirmu ja õuduse jutud II ❝ الناشرين : ❞ جميع الحقوق محفوظة للمؤلف ❝ ❞ دار زحمة كتاب للنشر والتوزيع ❝ ❞ New York : Ballantine Books ❝ ❞ Biblio ❝ ❱
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