We learn nothing else from the text about what happened to the "Glen Carrig", its captain, or any of the other people aboard the ship. 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 subtitle reads:īeing 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. The novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" starts in the middle of an adventure. An unabridged recording of the novel is available in the form of a podcast.
The text is out of copyright and available online via Project Gutenberg. Boats in its strong use of concrete detail evokes a lost world, and is also an interesting case study in human relationships and class mores, as the class distinctions between the narrator and the crew members are broken down by the shared situation they find themselves in, but are eventually re-established. The monsters do not necessarily require a supernatural explanation - i.e., are not ghosts, as in Hodgson's novel The Ghost Pirates (1909) or some of his Carnacki stories -, but there are also few explanations given. While The Night Land is an early example of science fiction, Boats is primarily a survival and adventure story with elements of horror, in the form of monsters. The novel is written in a style similar to that used by Hodgson in his longer novel The Night Land (1912), with long sentences containing semicolons and numerous prepositional phrases. The story is about the adventures of the survivors, who escaped the wreck in two lifeboats. The narrator is a passenger who was traveling on the ship Glen Carrig, which was lost at sea when it struck "a hidden rock". The novel is written in an archaic style, and is presented as a true account, written in 1757, of events occurring earlier. Its importance was recognised in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in February 1971. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" is a horror novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1907.
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