Adrift on the Sargasso Sea

[𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr]

There is a general sea thread:

vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/6097/all-sea

But the Sargasso Sea is an area that has particular appeal to writers. It has become a haunted location of becalmed and trapped ships, of great seaweed beds and otherwordly creatures.



The sea can feel alien, and the Sargasso Sea even more so. Put your stories set in this strange, otherworldly place below.

[𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr]

This 1898 novel reminds me somewhat of the film The Lost Continent, apparently loosely based on the Dennis Wheatley novel Uncharted Seas.



From Goodreads:

"The protagonist, Roger Stetworth, unwillingly joins a slave ship called the -Golden Hind- captained by Luke Chilton. (When Chilton demanded that Roger -sign aboard- he refused and was clubbed on the head and thrown overboard.) He is rescued by the -Hurst Castle- and doctored by a painfully stereotyped Irishman. The -Hurst Castle- is abandoned but does not founder in a gale and the crew, unable to get to him, are forced to leave Stetworth marooned aboard. The ship drifts into the center of the Sargasso Sea where Stetworth finds himself in a ships' graveyard in which survivors of previous shipwrecks still inhabit the forgotten ships. Stetworth must rely on his own ingenuity to get free from the choking sargasso weeds"

It seems this should read, "Stetworth must rely on his own ingenuity and a cat."

[cauldronbrewer]

May 26, 2023 14:45:10 GMT 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr said:

But the Sargasso Sea is an area that has particular appeal to writers. It has become a haunted location of becalmed and trapped ships, of great seaweed beds and otherwordly creatures.



The sea can feel alien, and the Sargasso Sea even more so. Put your stories set in this strange, otherworldly place below.

I'll always associate the Sargasso Sea with William Hope Hodgson. He wrote one novel (The Boats of the "Glen Carrig") and a series of short stories set there.