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Post by nosferatu on Jul 2, 2011 15:38:00 GMT
Sea Tales of Terror - Ed J.J. Strating Haven't seen this anywhere.. Edgar Allen Poe - A Descent into the Maelstrom L. Ron Hubbard - The Devil's Rescue Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Captain Of The 'Polestar' Vicente Blasco Ibaflez - Man Overboard! Hammond Innes - South Sea Bubble Claire D. Pollexfen - Stowaway James Hanley - Fog Bill Adams - Posted Missing Tom Hopkinson - I have Been Drowned Wilhelm Hauff - The Story Of The Haunted Ship August Derleth (posthumous collaboration with H.P. Lovecraft) - The Fisherman of Falcon Point Elinor Mordaunt - The Recall R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Markland the Hunter Jose Maria Gironella - The Death of the Sea |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 2, 2011 15:52:41 GMT
What, no William Hope Hodgson??!!!
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Post by dem on Jul 2, 2011 23:06:28 GMT
Think it could have done with something from him, dr. s., even one of his much reprinted greatest hits would have been welcome. It could be that I'm not a great fan of nautical horror, but this was the one book from the series I didn't get along with (and I rate Strating's others - the European Tales Of Terror & Oriental - very highly). It's only the Conan-Doyle, Innes, Hauff and Chetwynd-Hayes stories that made much impression, though it's been a long time, might be doing the others an injustice. A few years back, i determined to write a brief comment about every story included in the fontana ghost, horror, tales of terror and frighteners series' but as I saw the Sea Terrors approaching on the horizon it was abandon project and go bother some Hugh Lamb anthologies instead.
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Post by benedictjjones on Apr 19, 2016 10:19:41 GMT
Ah, it's a shame this one isn't better. I've recently been "turned on" to nautical horror by "terror tales of the ocean" and am on the hunt for some further reading (got a hankering to write one myself too). I've been advised to read more William Hope Hodgson so shall head down that route.
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Post by ripper on Apr 22, 2016 10:06:23 GMT
I agree, Benedict. This volume is one of the weaker ones in the series and Paul Finch's Terror Tales of the Ocean much the superior imo.
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Post by cromagnonman on Apr 23, 2016 14:11:01 GMT
Ah, it's a shame this one isn't better. I've recently been "turned on" to nautical horror by "terror tales of the ocean" and am on the hunt for some further reading (got a hankering to write one myself too). I've been advised to read more William Hope Hodgson so shall head down that route. You could do worse than to start with the, customarily excellent, Michel Parry edited WAVES OF TERROR (Gollancz 1976). Then there's Peter Haining's MYSTERIOUS SEA STORIES (WH Allen 1985: as by "William Pattrick"). Lots to be found on them elsewhere in the Vault. Then there's the three Wheatleys of course. Finally, if you're feeling especially bold, there is always the nautical colossus that is Paul Victor's WARLORDS OF ATLANTIS. Not an undertaking for the faint of heart. |
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