The Ghost Pirates

The Ghost Pirates

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name = The Ghost Pirates
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image_caption = cover of "The Ghost Pirates"
author = William Hope Hodgson
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
genre = Horror novel
publisher = Stanley Paul
release_date = 1909
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 276 pp
isbn = NA
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"The Ghost Pirates" is a novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1909. The economic style of writing has led horror writer Robert Weinberg to describe the Ghost Pirates as "one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published."

In it, Hodgson never describes the ghosts in any remarkable detail, he merely reports of their gradual commandeering of the ship.

"The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. 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." — H.P. Lovecraft

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