The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson
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"The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'" by William Hope Hodgson is a horror novel published in 1907. Written in archaic style as a firsthand account from 1757, it follows survivors of a shipwreck who escape in two lifeboats. Their desperate journey takes them through nightmarish landscapes: muddy shores haunted by strange cries, abandoned vessels harboring deadly secrets, and blood-draining creatures lurking in darkness. Stranded on mysterious islands amid a vast Sargasso Sea,
the men face monstrous threats while struggling to repair their damaged boat and survive. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hodgson, William Hope, 1877-1918 |
|---|---|
| Title |
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward; as told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his son James Winterstraw, in the year 1757, and by him committed very properly and legibly to manuscript |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boats_of_the_%22Glen_Carrig%22 |
| Credits | Suzanne Shell, Project Gutenberg Beginners Projects, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 59.3 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Shipwreck survival -- Fiction |
| Subject | Islands -- Fiction |
| Subject | Sea stories |
| Subject | Horror tales |
| Subject | Shipwrecks -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 10542 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-10542-0 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2003 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1063 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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