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A Skeleton at the Helm: Tales of Ghost Ships, Derelicts & Hauntings at Sea is a frightening anthology of classic stories and poems about the supernatural seas. Editor John Richard Stephens has carefully selected over thirty chilling tales written by a wide range of legendary writers, from fathers of horror like Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker, to masters of adventure like Jack London and Rudyard Kipling, and even to canonical poets such as Tennyson and Yeats. But frights on the high seas like sightings of the Flying Dutchman (who makes more than one appearance in this volume) are hardly a thing of the past, as Stephens ably illustrates in his introduction, where he catalogues the many dangers, real and imagined, that await nautical voyagers even today.… (mais)
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– Dangers on the seas / John Richard Stephens – The police officer’s tale / Henry Fielding – The specter ship / John Greenleaf Whittier – The ship seen on the ice / W. Clark Russell – Shipwreck / Ann Radcliffe – The derelict / William Hope Hodgson – The murdered lady / John Greenleaf Whittier – Phantom ships and the Sargasso Sea / Elliott O’Donnell – The sailor’s grave / Elisa Cook – A descent into the maelstrom / Edgar Allan Poe – Davey Jones’s gift / John Masefield – The kraken / Alfred, Lord Tennyson – The log of the Demeter / Bram Stoker – The phantom ship / William Butler Yeats – Man overboard / Winston Churchill – Hell gate / Washington Irving – The phantom light of the Baie des Chaleurs / Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton – The story of the haunted ship / Wilhelm Hauff – The Palatine / John Greenleaf Whittier – Make westing / Jack London – The Flying Dutchman / Charles Godfrey Leland – The striped chest / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – An encounter with a ghost / W. Clark Russell – Written on passing Deadman’s Island / Sir Thomas Moore – The derelict Neptune / Morgan Robertson – The thing in the weeds / William Hope Hodgson – A Greyport legend / Bret Harte – The last cruise of the Judas Iscariot / Edward Page Mitchell – The demon frigate / Sir Walter Scott – Christmas eve on a haunted hulk / Frank Cowper – The true fate of the Flying Dutchman / George Griffith – A matter of fact (excerpt) / Rudyard Kipling – The ballad of Carmilhan / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Guests from Gibbet Island / Washington Irving – The derelict / Young E. Allison – The upper berth / F. Marion Crawford – Fog wraiths / Mildred Howells – The voice in the night / William Hope Hodgson
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A Skeleton at the Helm: Tales of Ghost Ships, Derelicts & Hauntings at Sea is a frightening anthology of classic stories and poems about the supernatural seas. Editor John Richard Stephens has carefully selected over thirty chilling tales written by a wide range of legendary writers, from fathers of horror like Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker, to masters of adventure like Jack London and Rudyard Kipling, and even to canonical poets such as Tennyson and Yeats. But frights on the high seas like sightings of the Flying Dutchman (who makes more than one appearance in this volume) are hardly a thing of the past, as Stephens ably illustrates in his introduction, where he catalogues the many dangers, real and imagined, that await nautical voyagers even today.