The Ghost Pirates is a horror novel written by William Hope Hodgson and first published in 1909.
This is a nautical horror novel that tells the chilling story of the crew aboard the Mortzestus, a ship plagued by strange, supernatural events.
The protagonist, Jessop, recounts the gradual, eerie unravelling of reality as ghostly pirate figures begin to haunt the ship, leading to mysterious disappearances and deaths.
The atmosphere becomes increasingly ominous as the crew realise they are being pursued by otherworldly forces from the sea.
Hodgson builds a sense of dread throughout the narrative, mixing maritime adventure with supernatural horror, culminating in a suspenseful, terrifying conclusion.
"The Figure Out of the Sea,
He began without any circumlocution.
I joined the Mortzestus in 'Frisco. I heard before I signed on, that there were some funny yarns floating round about her; but I was pretty nearly on the beach, and too jolly anxious to get away, to worry about trifles. Besides, by all accounts, she was right enough so far as grub and treatment went. When I asked fellows to give it a name, they generally could not. All they could tell me, was that she was unlucky, and made thundering long passages, and had no more than a fair share of dirty weather. "
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William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overla...
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