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A Skeleton at the Helm: Tales of Ghost Ships, Derelicts & Hauntings at Sea

A Skeleton at the Helm: Tales of Ghost Ships, Derelicts & Hauntings at Sea is a frightening anthology of classic stories and poems about the supernatural seas. Editor John Richard Stephens has carefully selected over thirty chilling tales written by a wide range of legendary writers, from fathers of horror like Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker, to masters of adventure like Jack London and Rudyard Kipling, and even to canonical poets such as Tennyson and Yeats.

But frights on the high seas like sightings of the Flying Dutchman (who makes more than one appearance in this volume) are hardly a thing of the past, as Stephens ably illustrates in his introduction, where he catalogues the many dangers, real and imagined, that await nautical voyagers even today.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 343
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780760793022
  • Genres
  • horror
  • Release date
  • 2008