The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” and Other Nautical Adventures

The first of the five-volume set, The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” and Other Nautical Adventures, collects all of Hodgson’s series of nautical fiction, including the Sargasso Sea Story cycle.

The ship “Glen Carrig” gets lost at sea when it strikes a “hidden rock”, and several survivors escape the wreck in two lifeboats. But that is when their agony actually begins, as they become exposed to the Sargasso Sea, also known as “Cemetery of the Oceans”.

A Nautical Horror Classic by the author William Hope Hodgson.
“The Boats of the ‘Glen Carrig'” by British author William Hope Hodgson is a classic book of nautical horror first published in 1907. A celebrated horror classic, filled with the harrowing adventures of shipwreck survivors who encounter mysterious lands and monstrous creatures.

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“In the dead cold calm of the morning, when the sun’s rays seemed scarcely to lift the night’s darkness, we set to work.”

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The Glen Carrig, a sailing ship, strikes a hidden rock and sinks. The survivors, crammed into two lifeboats, find themselves in a mysterious sea unlike any they’ve ever known. As they battle starvation, monstrous creatures, and the ever-present threat of madness, they discover a nightmarish island unlike anything on Earth. Will they find salvation or succumb to the horrors that lurk in this uncharted realm?

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