Product Description

The first of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction. Introduction by Jeremy Lassen The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" The Sargasso Sea Stories * From the Tideless Sea Part 1 * From the Tideless Sea Part 2: More News From the Homebird * The Mystery of the Derelict * The Finding of the Graiken * The Thing in the Weeds * The Call In the Dawn The Exploits of Captain Gault * Contraband of War * From Information Received * The Case of the Curio Dealer * The Diamond Spy * The Drum of Saccharine * The Red Herring * The German Spy * The Painted Lady * The Problem of the Pearls * My Lady's Jewels * The Adventure of the Garter * Trading with the Enemy * The Plans of the Reefing Bi-Plane The Adventures of Captain Jat * The Island of the Ud * Adventure of the Headland Stories of Cargunka * The Bells of the Laughing Sally * The Adventure with the Claim Jumpers A Note On The Texts

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64437 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-19
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.51" h x 6.36" w x 9.24" l, 2.15 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 513 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures: Being the First Volume of the Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, edited by Jeremy Lassen, collects all the series sea fiction of this British fantasist, much of it long unavailable. As the 23 short stories show, Hodgson (1877-1918), best known for his novels of cosmic vision, could write quite successfully for the commercial magazine market of his day.
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From Booklist
Volume one of the Hodgson's collected fiction starts the project well, for it contains much of his best work. Hodgson was a professional merchant mariner for much of his life until his death in World War I, and his career began during the last days of seafaring under sail and without radio. His mostreprinted work is the novella The Boats of the "Glen Carrig", a compelling compounding of survival at sea and the supernatural. In his Sargasso Sea stories, corralled in the book's second section, Hodgson takes the legendary endless mass of weeds in the North Atlantic, which imprisoned ships eternally, as the pretext for six Lovecraftian-before-Lovecraft, undeniably effective tales. The 13 adventures of Captain Gault and the two of Captain Jat are more classic pulp-mystery thrillers; they reflect the era when a captain was "master under God" in fact and in law, and also Anglo-German tensions before World War I. For historically minded genre fans, especially if they savor some sea salt in their fantasy. Roland Green
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