Two weeks out of port, a haunted ship is becalmed and surrounded by a dense mist. A master of seafaring yarns recounts the crew's chilling fate in this compulsive page-turner.

TheMortzestus is reputed to be haunted but the crew dismisses the rumors as preposterous — at first. Two weeks out of port the rigging suddenly goes slack, a ghostly form arises from the sea, and shadows thicken around the vessel. The frightened sailors, convinced that supernatural powers are afoot, plot mutiny and demand to be set ashore. But a dense mist descends around the ship, threatening to swallow the craft and its men without a trace.
The desperate crew's chilling fate is recounted in this compulsive page-turner by William Hope Hodgson, a master of seafaring yarns. Rich in nautical language and lore, it combines an intriguing view of shipboard life with a suspenseful ghost story. Horror author Robert Weinberg noted the occult classic's compact prose style, hailing it as "one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published." And no less an authority than H. P. Lovecraft observed, "With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of power."

The Hell O! O! Chaunty

1. The Figure Out of the Sea

2. What Tammy the 'Prentice Saw

3. The Man up the Main

4. The Fooling with the Sail

5. The End of Williams

6. Another Man to the Wheel

7. The Coming of the Mist, and that which It Ushered

8. After the Coming of the Mist

9. The Man Who Cried for Help

10. Hands that Plucked

11. The Search for Stubbins

12. The Council

13. The Shadow in the Sea

14. The Ghost Ships

15. The Great Ghost Ship

16. The Ghost Pirates

Appendix