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Post by dem bones on Mar 11, 2022 10:29:37 GMT
Peter Haining (ed.) – The Ghost Ship: Stories of The Phantom Flying Dutchman (William Kimber, 1985) Peter Haining - Introduction
Sir Max Pemberton – Senta
Heinrich Heine – The Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski
Wilhelm Hauff – The Story of the Haunted Ship
W. Clark Russell – An Encounter with a Ghost
George Griffith – The True Fate of the Flying Dutchman
James Brander Matthews – A Primer of Imaginary Geography
Wardon Allan Curtis – The Fate of the Senegambian Queen
Joseph Conrad – The Brute
William Hope Hodgson – The Haunted Jarvee
Henry A. Hering – The Crew of the Flying Dutchman
Victor MacClure – The Fringe of Calamity
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne – The Finish of the Flying Dutchman
Pierre Mac Orlan – By the Light of the Lanterns
Malcolm Jameson – Train for Flushing
Roger Zelazny – And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee
Jack Sharkey – The Phantom Ship Blurb: The Flying Dutchman, doomed to wander the world’s oceans with its accursed captain and crew, has been seen by generations of seamen. The fascination with this ghostly ship has excited the imagination of some of the finest writers of both maritime and supernatural stories. The best. of these stories are brought together in this fascinating collection. Peter Haining - Introduction: Editor began by collecting reported sightings of The Flying Dutchman (or a ghost ship answering to its description) by, among others, the future King George V, the captain of nineteenth century steamship, and Admiral Karl Doenitz, commander in chief of Germany's U-boats. He then turned to works of supernatural fiction on same theme, hence this anthology. Wilhelm Hauff – The Story of the Haunted Ship: (Originally published in the German as Die Geschichte von dem Gespensterschiff, 1825). "My ship is lost ...there sails Death!" Shipwrecked narrator and his faithful servant clamour aboard a passing vessel to find the butchered corpses of it's Turkish crew strewn about the deck and the captain impaled to the nailed to the mast via a spike through the forehead! When night falls, these dead men rise 'til dawn. A Pirate gang cursed by a Holy man to know no peace until their heads again touch soil. For fifty years they have nightly replayed the drunken mutiny that claimed their lives. A verse from the Koran sets them free. W. Clark Russell – An Encounter with a Ghost: ( My Watch Below; or, Yarns Spun When Off Duty, 1882). Crew of barque bound for Connecticut board a seemingly stricken ship adrift mid-Atlantic. Under the watchful eye of an eerie, unintelligible captain and four grim mates, they inspect below deck to find the ship decrepit but seaworthy. On returning to their own craft, the cook insists they have met with The Flying Dutchman — and all such sightings herald an almighty storm.  Bob Gale: ( Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone, May 1981). All men pray for rescue, but who will save the rescuers? Van Berkum escapes the 'Dutchman, hurling himself overboard after a barrel and clinging on until plucked from the sea by an American two-master. His choice of rescue ship is soon cause for bitter regret.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 11, 2022 13:09:00 GMT
Peter Haining (ed.) – The Ghost Ship: Stories of The Phantom Flying Dutchman (William Kimber, 1985) Roger Zelazny – And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee: ( Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone, May 1981). All men pray for rescue, but who will save the rescuers? Van Berkum escapes the 'Dutchman, hurling himself overboard after a barrel and clinging on until plucked from the sea by an American two-master. His choice of rescue ship is soon cause for bitter regret. I wonder how many of writers who plundered Moby Dick actually read it. :-) Jokes aside, how did Haining manage this all? It is not alone all the work, but the ability to sell the damn thing to a publisher. Unbelievable. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 11, 2022 19:54:37 GMT
I wonder how many of writers who plundered Moby Dick actually read it. :-) I am not sure I follow you. The Flying Dutchman is not mentioned in MOBY DICK. |
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Post by andydecker on Mar 11, 2022 20:26:41 GMT
I wonder how many of writers who plundered Moby Dick actually read it. :-) I am not sure I follow you. The Flying Dutchman is not mentioned in MOBY DICK. I meant Zelazny and his story-title, which I quoted. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 11, 2022 20:37:38 GMT
I am not sure I follow you. The Flying Dutchman is not mentioned in MOBY DICK. I meant Zelazny and his story-title, which I quoted. Yes, of course; sorry. Somehow I did not see that. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on Mar 12, 2022 13:59:49 GMT
I am not sure I follow you. The Flying Dutchman is not mentioned in MOBY DICK. I meant Zelazny and his story-title, which I quoted. Zelazny was widely read, and I think it highly probable he had read the Melville. That's not his only tale to refer to it, of course. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Mar 12, 2022 20:29:07 GMT
Zelazny was widely read, and I think it highly probable he had read the Melville. That's not his only tale to refer to it, of course. "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth" comes to mind--the title may come from the Book Of Job, but the tale itself has a lot in common with Moby-Dick. It's my favorite Zelazny story. Melville's novel has such a reputation as an bore that I was pleasantly surprised when I read it myself. It's not horror by any stretch, but parts of it felt horror-adjacent to me (the omens, the forging of the harpoon, everything about Fedallah). Also, the Classic Illustrated version with art by Bill Sienkiewicz is striking. |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 13, 2022 6:51:07 GMT
Jokes aside, how did Haining manage this all? It is not alone all the work, but the ability to sell the damn thing to a publisher. Unbelievable. I guess William Kimber let him do his own thing (they sure as hell did Chetwynd-Hayes, judging by some of his later abominations). Have had The Ghost Ship sat on the shelf since eve of Covid. Not being the biggest fan of sea stories, could never find the enthusiasm to get started. Needless to say, it's been a decent read. Malcolm Jameson – Train for Flushing: ( Weird Tales, March 1940). A routine subway trip turns Twilight Zone for two elderly passengers. Dennison and Mrs. Herrick are trapped aboard as Captain Vanderdecken sends the train hurting back through the centuries until they reach Flushing at the outset of his fatal voyage. This time when the storm hits, he'll not be so impetuous as to challenge the Almighty. George Griffith – The True Fate of the Flying Dutchman: ( Pearson's Weekly, 21 July, 1894). Should you wish to learn what became of the 'Dutchman and her ghastly crew, there's but one man knows the truth. Old seadawg Jim relates an exciting tale of bullying Captain Dave Schuyler, the murder of a cabin boy, an alleged Jonah exiled aboard the Phantom Ship to prevent his speaking out, and the latter's revenge when the Wandering Jew of the ocean finally found peace in the choking weeds of the Saragossa. Jack Sharkley - The Phantom Ship: Philip Vanderdecken's obsessive quest to find his infamous father's lost ship ends in disaster when his own vessel collides with a third in thick mist. Haining gives the original publication date as 1971, doesn't mention where. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on Mar 13, 2022 7:28:23 GMT
Zelazny was widely read, and I think it highly probable he had read the Melville. That's not his only tale to refer to it, of course. "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth" comes to mind--the title may come from the Book Of Job, but the tale itself has a lot in common with Moby-Dick. It's my favorite Zelazny story. Melville's novel has such a reputation as an bore that I was pleasantly surprised when I read it myself. It's not horror by any stretch, but parts of it felt horror-adjacent to me (the omens, the forging of the harpoon, everything about Fedallah). Also, the Classic Illustrated version with art by Bill Sienkiewicz is striking. It was only a few years ago that I realised I'd read only a digest version of Moby-Dick when I was young. I took the complete novel on holiday and found it hugely enjoyable. And it was Melville's work that shaped my view of horror as a very wide field when I was eleven. |
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2022 9:20:17 GMT
James Brander Matthews – A Primer of Imaginary Geography: (Tales of Fantasy and Fact, 1896). "In the outskirts of the Forest of Arden,' he began again, 'stands the Abbey of Thelema — the only abbey which is bounded by no wall and in which there is no clock at all nor any dial. And what need is there of knowing the time when one has for companions only comely and well-conditioned men and fair women of sweet disposition? And the motto of the Abbey of Thelema is Fais ce que voudra — Do what you will; and many of those who dwell in the Forest of Arden will tell you that they have taken this also for their device, and that if you live under the greenwood tree you may spend your life — as you like it."
The author inexplicably finds himself aboard The Flying Dutchman on a night voyage from the City of Destruction to Altruria. Captain Vanderdecken keeps him entertained with tales of everyone he's met from Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, and Capt. Lemuel Gulliver to Robinson Crusoe and Charon the ferryman, all the strange lands he's visited, and encounters with sirens, harpies and other marvellous beasts of the sea. Decent fantasy murdered by that cop out ending we all know and loathe (you see it coming a mile off).
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