The Boats of the Glen Carrig
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The Land of Lonesomeness
13:00 -
The Ship in the Creek
9:35 -
The Thing That Made Search
14:24 -
The Two Faces
13:23 -
The Great Storm
15:09 -
The Weed-Choked Sea
18:05 -
The Island in the Weed
14:56 -
The Noises in the Valley
17:00 -
What Happened in the Dusk
17:48 -
The Light in the Weed
17:21 -
The Signals from the Ship
15:46 -
The Making of the Great Bow
20:27 -
The Weed Men
21:10 -
In Communication
24:19 -
Aboard The Hulk
24:43 -
Freed
20:05 -
How We Came To Our Own Country
12:09
The Boats of the Glen Carrig (1907) is a public domain work.
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After five days in boats, exhausted sailors reach a flat coast whose strange trees and muddy waterways offer little comfort. Their ship, the Glen Carrig, has struck a hidden rock, leaving them to seek safety in unfamiliar seas. The coastal landscape brings an eerie silence, followed by distant cries and hungry growling as evening falls. William Hope Hodgson builds this nautical horror novel around the practical difficulties of survival and the fear of what lies beyond sight.
Framed as John Winterstraw's account to his son in 1757, the story uses an old-fashioned narrative voice to record unsettling details with care. A later passage finds the sailors watching a nearby vessel and debating how to signal its occupants. The boatswain challenges their fearful guesses with a possible human explanation. Readers interested in sea adventures can find here a close connection between isolation, uncertain evidence and mounting dread.
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- Author
- William Hope Hodgson
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 127
- Language
- English
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- Jason Mills