Des pirates fantômes s'attaquent à un navire en plein océan. Entre folie et incompréhension, les marins vont-ils réussir à se sortir du guêpier ?

Les Spectres pirates

The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog, " powered from the Earth's internal energy. For millennia, vast living shapes - the Watchers - have waited in the darkness near the pyramid: it is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human.

To leave the protection of the Circle means almost certain death, or worse, but as the story commences, the narrator establishes mind contact with an inhabitant of another, forgotten, Redoubt, and sets off into the darkness to find her.

The Night Land

Out of the Storm is a collection of fantasy short stories by William Hope Hodgson. It was first published in 1975 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 2,100 copies.Contents:"William Hope Hodgson (The Early Years, Novelist, The Final Years)", by Sam Moskowitz"A Tropical Horror""Out of the Storm""The Finding of the Graiken""Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani""Terror of the Water-Tank""The Albatross""The Haunting of the Lady Shannon"

L'horreur tropicale

Ces nouvelles fantastiques mettent en scène la mer et sa nature funeste : une horreur surgie des abysses tropicales, un navire hanté, une révélation terrifiante transmise par radio, etc.

L'horreur tropicale, et autres histoires

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.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig

Right away in the west of Ireland lies a tiny hamlet called Kraighten. It is situated, alone, at the base of a low hill. Far around there spreads a waste of bleak and totally inhospitable country; where, here and there at great intervals, one may come upon the ruins of some long desolate cottage-unthatched and stark. The whole land is bare and unpeopled, the very earth scarcely covering the rock that lies beneath it, and with which the country abounds, in places rising out of the soil in wave-shaped ridges. Yet, in spite of its desolation, my friend Tonnison and I had elected to spend our vacation there. He had stumbled on the place by mere chance the year previously, during the course of a long walking tour, and discovered the possibilities for the angler in a small and unnamed river that runs past the outskirts of the little village. I have said that the river is without name; I may add that no map that I have hitherto consulted has shown either village or stream. They seem to have entirely escaped observation: indeed, they might never exist for all that the average guide tells one. Possibly this can be partly accounted for by the fact that the nearest railway station (Ardrahan) is some forty miles distant.

The House on the Borderland

Hodgson wrote a trilogy consisting of Date 1965 Modern Warfare, The House on the Borderland, and The Ghost Pirates. The setting for The House on the Borderland is an ancient house in a lonely part of Ireland, where an old man lives alone with his sister and his pets. His diary is found and it tells the story of a huge cavern below the house filled with white pig like monsters. The old man has had to flight these creatures. He then sees his house in an alternate space-time plain that is isolated from the rest of his world. This haunting tale conveys intense isolations and loneliness.

que faire face à la mer et aux créatures moNstrueuses qu'elle reNferme ? Écrit en 1905 et publié en 1909, Les Pirates fantômes est l'oeuvre de l'un des plus étonnants conteurs fantastiques anglais du début du XXe siècle. Puisant son inspiration dans son expérience de jeunesse passée dans la marine marchande, William Hope Hodgson a, dans deux de ses romans et la plupart de ses contes, peint un univers maritime effrayant, peuplé de créatures monstrueuses, dans lequel l'homme est le jouet impuissant des forces d'une nature inconnue et terrifiante. Les Pirates fantômes appartient à cette veine maritime qui fit le succès d'Hodgson et influença durablement des auteurs tels Lovecraft et Jean Ray. Ce court roman relate le destin tragique d'un navire, le Mortzestus, aux prises avec des créatures spectrales débarquant de vaisseaux fantômes. Rapporté par le seul témoin survivant — dans une langue quasi argotique —, le récit de l'attaque du Mortzestus, permet à Hodgson d'instiller une peur aussi insidieuse qu'efficace dans l'esprit du lecteur.

Les pirates fantômes

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 and by him committed very properly and legibly to manuscript. FultonClassics.com

Les Spectres pirates

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