The Ghost Pirates (Classics of Science Fiction) [Hardcover]

William Hope Hodgson (Author), Sidney Herbert Sime (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1976 | Series: Classics of Science Fiction

This book forms the last of three. The first published was The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'; the second, The House on the Borderland; this, the third, completes what, perhaps, may be termed a trilogy; for, though very different in scope, each of the three books deals with certain conceptions that have an elemental kinship. With this book, the author believes that he closes the door, so far as he is concerned, on a particular phase of constructive thought.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 276 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion Pr (June 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883553708
• ISBN-13: 978-0883553701
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,532,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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88 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Old Fashioned Ghost Story, September 21, 2009

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L. McKelvy (Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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The Ghost Pirates was entertaining and holds up incredibly well for its age; I'm actually a bit surprised it has not received an update as a screenplay as it would translate well into a period horror movie. I downloaded this because it was free and fell into the horror genre. I was not disappointed and it is well worth the read. No blood and guts, but plenty of death and supernatural occurrences in the Nautical/Gothic sense. It is written in first-person, and is filled with archaic nautical terms which the Kindles dictionary handles quite nicely (for the most part).

I don't give away detailed plot points in my reviews, but in a nutshell this is a story about a sailor who takes a job on a reputedly haunted ship. It follows the basic formula of disbelief and isolation, followed by a group realization that something is not quite right. Appropriately creepy, it reminds me of something one might hear from The Chowder Society (if you are unfamiliar with that group, read Ghost Story by Peter Straub).

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good story, March 5, 2010

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Terri Haines "loves to read" (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
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I also only downloaded this book because it was free and ended up really liking it. I didn't expect such an old story to be very scary, but the story is pretty frightening. The imagery is compelling. Once you get in the mindset of the time period and the ship location, the story unfurls quickly. After reading this one, I looked up the author's other books for Kindle (there are several) and discovered some are weirder than others, but they all kept my attention and made me think about what would come next in the plot. My only complaint is that the story wasn't longer!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, July 10, 2010

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M. T. Bowers (Northern Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This short (1719 locations) novel grabbed me right away and didn't let go until I'd finished it. It is genuinely creepy, and probably shouldn't be read alone in a creeky old house during a midnight thunderstorm. Unless you like that kind of thing. There is a lot of technical nautical detail, but I didn't find it annoying; it just gave the author street (sea?) cred, as far as I was concerned. I can't help thinking that the writers for the movie Pirates of the Caribbean (Black Pearl) might've read this as kids, only the atmosphere in The Ghost Pirates is much more deadly.

For free -- why not?