Sea-Cursed: Thirty Terrifying Tales of the Deep

Introduction

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32 contents entries

1. Introduction (Sea-Cursed) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz and T. Liam McDonald ix · introduction
2. A Descent Into the Maelström? 1
3. • (1841) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe story
4. The Captain of the Pole-Star • (1991) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Captain of the Polestar 1883) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] 15 · novelette
5. The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford 34 · novelette
6. The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad 52 · story
7. The Boats of the Glen Carrig (excerpt) • (1907) • short fiction by William Hope Hodgson 70 · story
8. The Song of the Sirens • (1919) • novelette by Edward Lucas White 181 · novelette
9. The Ship of Silent Men • (1920) • novelette by Philip M. Fisher 207 · novelette
10. The Temple • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft 240 · story
11. Bells of Oceana • (1927) • short story by Arthur J. Burks 251 · story
12. Second Night Out • (1946) • short story by Frank Belknap Long (variant of The Black, Dead Thing 1933) 262 · story
13. The Black Kiss • [Michael Leigh] • (1937) • short story by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner 270 · story
14. The Sea Thing • (1940) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt 287 · novelette
15. Sea Curse • [Faring Town] • (1928) • short story by Robert E. Howard 313 · story
16. A Vintage from Atlantis • [Poseidonis] • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith 319 · story
17. Derelict • (1937) • short story by Hugh B. Cave 325 · story
18. Sea-Tiger • (1932) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead 337 · story
19. The Women • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury 345 · story
20. The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth • (1965) • novelette by Roger Zelazny 354 · novelette
21. The Wine-Dark Sea • (1966) • novelette by Robert Aickman 383 · novelette
22. The Ferries • (1982) • short story by Ramsey Campbell 413 · story
23. The Night Sea-Maid Went Down • (1971) • short story by Brian Lumley 424 · story
24. Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock • (1984) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale 433 · story
25. Message Found in a Bottle II, or: An Invitation from Your Captain • (1990) • short story by Nancy Holder 437 · story
26. A Sailor's Pay • (1991) • short story by Jack Cady 443 · story
27. Deep Sleep • (1992) • short story by Matthew J. Costello 459 · story
28. Scape-Goats • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker 470 · novelette
29. Between the Windows of the Sea • (1985) • short story by Jack Dann 493 · story
30. Dip in the Pool • non-genre • (1952) • short story by Roald Dahl 505 · story
31. The Night Ocean • novelette by R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Robert H. Barlow] 515 · novelette
32. Spawn of the Sea • (1933) • short story by Donald Wandrei 534 · story

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Lynn J. Binder

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