Get other Science Fiction Anthologies hereWilliam Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) is acknowledged as one of the undisputed masters of the sea story. There has never been a collection of his very best short stories offered to the trade. Hodgson’s sea stories have unusual authenticity owing to his having spent a lot of time on merchant’s ships-he left his family in 1890 at the age of thirteen to spend eight years at sea where the experience of mistreatment poor pay and worse food was contrasted by Hodgson’s immeasurable fascination with the sea
