From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea (Tales of the Weird) - Softcover

Mike Ashley; William Hope Hodgson; Izola Forrester; Elinor Mordaunt; Lady Eleanor Smith; Albert R. Wetjen; Morgan Robertson; Ward Muir; Frank H. Shaw; Herman Scheffauer; F. Britten Austin; James Francis Dwyer; John Gilbert; Rupert Chesterton; Morgan Burke; C. N. Barham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712352368 ISBN 13: 9780712352369

Publisher: British Library Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

From atop the choppy waves to the choking darkness of the abyss, the seas are full of mystery and rife with tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown.

In this anthology we see a thrilling spread of narratives; sailors are pitched against a nightmare from the depths, invisible to the naked eye; a German U-boat commander is tormented by an impossible transmission via Morse Code; a ship ensnares itself in the kelp of the Sargasso Sea and dooms a crew of mutineers, seemingly out of revenge for her lost captain

The supernatural is set alongside the grim affairs of sailors scorned in these salt-soaked tales, recovered from obscurity for the 21st century.

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than one hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. He is series consultant for British Library Science Fiction Classics and his books include Adventures in The Strand, Out of This World, and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950. His multi-volume history of science fiction magazines is published by Liverpool University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: British Library Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0712352368
• ISBN 13: 9780712352369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Mike Ashley