Cover of The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"

The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"

by William Hope Hodgson

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Fairly demanding
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Free

About the book

"The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'" by William Hope Hodgson is a horror novel published in 1907. Written in archaic style as a firsthand account from 1757, it follows survivors of a shipwreck who escape in two lifeboats. Their desperate journey takes them through nightmarish landscapes: muddy shores haunted by strange cries, abandoned vessels harboring deadly secrets, and blood-draining creatures lurking in darkness. Stranded on mysterious islands amid a vast Sargasso Sea, the men face monstrous threats while struggling to repair their damaged boat and survive.

  • Science fiction
  • Shipwreck survival
  • Islands
  • Sea stories
  • Horror tales
  • Shipwrecks

Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #10542. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" on Wikipedia.

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