The Sea Trilogy by William Hope Hodgson (Halcyon Classics)

THE SEA TRILOGY features three classic William Hope Hodgson horror tales set at sea. THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN-CARRIG,' THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, and THE GHOST PIRATES form a loose trilogy; Hodgson states in THE GHOST PIRATES that "each of the three books deals with certain conceptions that have an elemental kinship." In THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN-CARRIG,' the few survivors of the sunken "Glen-Carrig" fight for survival aboard the lifeboats. As they approach an isolated island, they find they must contend with terrors far beyond those of the open sea.The HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND follows two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, who head into Ireland to spend a week fishing. There they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything imaginable. THE GHOST PIRATES presents the captivating tale of the ship "Mortzestus," an unlucky vessel haunted by "too many shadows." The unifying theme seems to be the dreadful forces that lurk just beneath the veneer of what we, in immense folly, believe to be "reality." Malign forces may surface at any moment to drag us to destruction or worse.

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