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Post by ohthehorror on Sept 18, 2015 11:41:28 GMT
Having recently enjoyed a couple of good old 'briny' stories, I thought it time we had a sea-faring DIY Anthology. You get extra points for Sea Monsters. Here's a few I can recall or have recently read to start off with,
The Sea Witch - Nictzin Dyalhis, Weird Tales, December 1937, Volume 30, No. 6
The Upper Birth - F. Marion Crawford, reviewed on this very site!
Bells of Oceana - Arthur J. Burks, also reviewed on this site!
Fish - Anna Taborska, Dem's review here and mine here
There must be loads more. Don't forget the 'Sea Monsters'!
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Post by dem on Sept 18, 2015 12:59:46 GMT
Some to be getting on with: William Hope Hodgson - The Voice In The Night, ( The Blue Book, Nov. 1907, and much anthologised thereafter) Leslie Charteris - The Convenient Monster ( Trust The Saint, 1962) Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle - The Captain Of The Polestar (1890, and much anthologised thereafter, available in a Wordsworth's Mystery & The Supernatural budget selection, ( Tales Of Unease, 2008) H. G. Wells - The Sea Raiders (1896, and much anthologised thereafter) Frank Belknap Long - The Sea Thing (Christine Campbell Thomson [ed.], More Not At Night, 1926). Bassett Morgan - Laocoon (Christine Campbell Thomson [ed.], You'll Need A Night-light, 1927). Philip C. Heath - Dead Man's Fingers (Karl E. Wagner (ed.) - Years Best Horror Stories XIV, 1986). Chris Priestley - Nature ( Tales Of Terror From The Black Ship, 2008). Simon Kurt Unsworth - The Poor Weather Crossings Company (Paul Finch [ed.], Tales Of Terror From The Seaside, 2013). A number of stories mentioned on the When Seafood Attacks! thread probably qualify. |
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Post by dem on Sept 18, 2015 17:37:10 GMT
J. J. Strating (ed) – Sea Tales Of Terror (Fontana, 1974) J. J. Strating - Introduction
Edgar Allan Poe – A Descent Into The Maelstrom
L. Ron Hubbard – The Devil’s Rescue
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Captain Of The “Polestar”
Vincente Blasco Ibanez – Man Overboard!
Hammond Innes – South Sea Bubble
Charles D. Pollexfen – Stowaway
James Hanley – Fog
Bill Adams – Posted Missing
Tom Hopkinson – I Have Been Drowned
William Hauff – The Story Of The Haunted Ship
H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth – The Fisherman Of Falcoln Point
Elinor Mordaunt – The Recall
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – Markland The Hunter
Jose Maria Gironella – The Death Of The Sea'William Pattrick' {Peter Haining] (ed) – Mysterious Sea Stories (W. H. Allen, 1985, Star, 1986) William Pattrick - Introduction
William Hope Hodgson – The Finding of the Graiken
John Masefield – Davy Jones’s Gift
C. S. Forester – The Turning of the Tide
Joseph Conrad – The Black Mate
Jack London – Make Westing
Richard Sale – The Benevolent Ghost and Captain Lowrie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement
W. Clark Russell – A Bewitched Ship
Herman Melville – Hood’s Isle and The Hermit Oberlus
Captain Frederick Marryat – The Legend of The Bell Rock
Edgar Allan Poe – Ms. Found in a Bottle
Rudyard Kipling – A Matter of Fact
H. G. Wells – In the Abyss
Ray Bradbury – Undersea GuardiansMichel Parry (ed.) - Waves Of Terror (Gollancz, 1976) David A. Sutton (ed.) - Horror On The High Seas (Shadow, 2014) Forthcoming: Paul Finch (ed.) - Terror Tales Of The Ocean (Gray Friar Press, 201-)
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Post by Shrink Proof on Sept 18, 2015 17:50:50 GMT
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Post by dem on Sept 18, 2015 19:42:36 GMT
That they would, Dr. Proof, also: Joseph Payne Brennan - On The Elevator. "The storm-tossed waves beat against the boardwalk and the very foundations of the hotel itself. Was it that they churned up a secret long meant to lie buried at sea?" ( Weird Tales, July 1953: Nine Horrors & A Dream, 1958) Hugh B. Cave - Stragella. "Shipwrecked on the Indian Ocean Bela Yancy meets Stragella, under a mist that was a shroud." Strange Tales, June 1932, and and much anthologised thereafter, inc. Stephen Jones [ed}, Mammoth Book Of Vampires, 1992). William Hope Hodgson - The Mystery Of The Derelict (1907: Hugh Lamb [ed], Forgotten Tales Of Terror, 1978). Ernest Favenc - What The Rats Brought ( Phil May's Christmas Annual, Winter 1904-5: Vault Advent Calendar, 2014) Dana Carroll - The Ocean Ogre. "A tale of the thing called Alain Gervais that came aboard a ship at sea," or a total rip off- as in virtually word for word - of Frank Belknap Long's The Sea Thing. ( Weird Tales, July 1937: 100 Wild Little Weird Tales, 1994). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2015 22:00:57 GMT
Van Thal edited THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF SEA STORIES - will dig out my copy and post the contents. However, I do remember it had Middleton's 'The Ghost Ship', Dahl's 'Dip in the Pool' and a Harry E Turner story. I think it just beats the 1/3 of the book having supernatural stories in it.
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Post by sickdrjoe on Sept 19, 2015 11:46:09 GMT
Leave us not forget Sea-Cursed (McDonald, Dziemianowicz & Greenberg)  A Descent into the Maelström (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe The Captain of the “Pole-Star” (1883) by Arthur Conan Doyle The Upper Berth (1886) by F. Marion Crawford The Brute (1906) by Joseph Conrad The Boats of the Glen Carrig (1907) by William Hope Hodgson The Song of the Sirens (1919) by Edward Lucas White The Ship of Silent Men (1920) by Philip M. Fisher The Temple (1925) by H. P. Lovecraft Bells of Oceana (1927) by Arthur J. Burks Second Night Out [“The Black, Dead Thing”] (1933) by Frank Belknap Long The Black Kiss (1937) by Robert Bloch The Sea Thing (1940) by A. E. van Vogt Sea Curse (1928) by Robert E. Howard A Vintage from Atlantis (1933) by Clark Ashton Smith Derelict (1937) by Hugh B. Cave Sea-Tiger (1932) by Henry S. Whitehead The Women (1948) by Ray Bradbury The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth (1965) by Roger Zelazny The Wine-Dark Sea (1966) by Robert Aickman The Ferries (1982) by Ramsey Campbell The Night the Sea-Maid Went Down (1971) by Brian Lumley Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock (1984) by Joe R. Lansdale Message Found in a Bottle II, or: An Invitation from Your Captain (1990) by Nancy Holder A Sailor’s Pay (1991) by Jack Cady Deep Sleep (1992) by Matthew J. Costello Scape-goats (1984) by Clive Barker Between the Windows of the Sea (1985) by Jack M. Dann Dip in the Pool (1952) by Roald Dahl The Night Ocean (1936) by Robert H. Barlow Spawn of the Sea (1933) by Donald Wandrei |
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Post by dem on Sept 19, 2015 16:34:09 GMT
Personally, I found Mysterious Sea Stories underwhelming, while Sea Tales Of Terror is my least loved book in the series, but Sea Cursed looks much more like it. Thank you for the suggestion.
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Post by bobby on Sept 20, 2015 3:24:25 GMT
'William Pattrick' {Peter Haining] (ed) – Mysterious Sea Stories (W. H. Allen, 1985, Star, 1986) William Pattrick - Introduction
William Hope Hodgson – The Finding of the Graiken
John Masefield – Davy Jones’s Gift
C. S. Forester – The Turning of the Tide
Joseph Conrad – The Black Mate
Jack London – Make Westing
Richard Sale – The Benevolent Ghost and Captain Lowrie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement
W. Clark Russell – A Bewitched Ship
Herman Melville – Hood’s Isle and The Hermit Oberlus
Captain Frederick Marryat – The Legend of The Bell Rock
Edgar Allan Poe – Ms. Found in a Bottle
Rudyard Kipling – A Matter of Fact
H. G. Wells – In the Abyss
Ray Bradbury – Undersea Guardians I have the original pulp appearance of the Bradbury story, the December 1944 Amazing Stories. It's about underwater zombies, the victims of ships sunk by Nazi subs, protecting ships from future sub attacks. One of them "sacrifices" herself blocking the path of a torpedo heading toward the ship her fiance' is stationed on.   |
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Post by dem on Sept 26, 2015 6:23:13 GMT
Tod Robbins - The Whimpus (Charles Lloyd [ed.], Nightmares, 1933). Story was reprinted in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Sept. 1939, and you can read it at Unz.orgPaul Ernst - The Thing From The Pond ( Astounding Stories, June 1934). Gerhart Hauptmann - The Sea Monster reprinted in Herbert Van Thal's The Bedside Book Of Monsters, 1973. |
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Post by dem on Oct 18, 2015 14:46:39 GMT
The tension reaches fever pitch in Hal Grant's The Ancient Horror ( Amazing Stories, April 1928) |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 18, 2015 17:06:57 GMT
Brr! Scary stuff.
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Post by ohthehorror on Oct 19, 2015 18:43:51 GMT
He looks like a very cheery sort of monster. I'd befriend him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 22:14:21 GMT
He looks like a very cheery sort of monster. I'd befriend him. That's what he wants you to think. |
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Post by dem on Oct 20, 2015 16:59:56 GMT
This looks pretty good. The prolific Mr. Arment has compiled several anthologies of cryptozoological interest for Coachwhip including Out of the Sand: Mummies, Pyramids, and Egyptology in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (Coachwhip, 2008), and Invertebrata Enigmatica; Giant Spiders, Dangerous Insects, and other Strange Invertebrates in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (Coachwhip, 2008), and Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy, (Coachwhip, 2008). Chad Arment (ed.) - Cetus Insolitus: Sea Serpents, Giant Cephalopods, and Other Marine Monsters in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (Coachwhip, 2008) 
John C. Hutcheson - Jim Newman's Yarn: Or, A Sight of the Sea Serpent
Anonymous - A Real Sea-Serpent
Rudyard Kipling - A Matter of Fact
W. W. Jacobs - The Rival Beauties
H. G. Wells - The Sea Raiders
H. G. Wells - In the Abyss
Frank T. Bullen - The Last Stand of the Decapods
Arthur Colton - The Voyage of the Mary Simpson
Owen Oliver - Out of the Deep
Everard Jack Appleton - The Sea Serpent Syndicate
William Hope Hodgson - A Tropical Horror
William Hope Hodgson - From the Tideless Sea
Charles G. D. Roberts - The Terror of the Sea Caves
William Hope Hodgson - The Mystery of the Derelict
Gouverneur Morris - Winkler Ashore: The Sea-Serpent
Anonymous - Crew Saved by Sea Serpent
William Hope Hodgson - The Thing in the Weeds
William Hope Hodgson - The Finding of the Graiken
Morgan Robertson- From the Darkness and the Depths
William Hope Hodgson - The Stone Ship
H. de Vere Stacpoole - De Profundis
William Hope Hodgson- Demons of the Sea
William Hope Hodgson - The Habitants of Middle Islet
R. E. Vernède - The Finless Death
Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester - The Octopus Cycle Blurb: 26 stories for cryptozoology fans, and those interested in the origins of the marine monster theme in classic science fiction and fantasy.
Stories range from the classic sea serpent (published in the mid-1800s, during the ongoing debate over whether sea serpents existed), to giant cephalopods, invisible octopuses, intelligent (and deadly) fish, and more.
Some tales are played for humor, others are straight horror or adventure stories. Several stories come from early newspapers, a common early publishing venue for short strange fiction. |
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