![]() ![]() ![]() This classic tale is told expertly in a solid narration by Mark Turetsky. Most clearly, movies such as Hammer Film's 1968's "The Lost Continent": A re-telling of "The Boats of Glen Carrig" featuring a lost ship full of passengers with dark secrets plotting against each other in true 60's sex-ploitative over-tones as they sail into the very same living sea-weed & monster infested mist shrouded Ocean mystery area, as in "The Boats of Glen Carrig" This book is a treasure of pop-culture / adventure & horror literature. Beyond blazing a trail for literature, William Hope Hodgson's weird tales also influenced a generation of film makers. Lovecraft gained inspiration from William Hope Hodgson's frightening tales of high strangeness on the high seas. and, oh yes, the father of all modern horror. Vastly ahead of his time, Willian Hope Hodgson was setting the ground work for many of pop culture's greatest adventure authors to come: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Spectacular Ocean going ship adventures into an unknown! A Sargasso Sea with it's weird forbidden islands crawling with many soul-shaking horrors & horrific hungry monsters. ![]() On the "BUCKET LIST" of books you MUST read! ![]()
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