Lost in the Wilds of Horror Episode 6: "Demons of the Sea" "Demons of the Sea" is a short story by British author, William Hope Hodgson. The tale tells of ship’s terrifying encounter with something altogether monstrous, in the humid, sea mists. Chapters: 00:15 - Introduction 00:48 - Demons of the Sea Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music and production by Ian Gordon Support us on Bandcamp or Patreon: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com www.patreon.com/horrorbabble HorrorBabble MERCH: teespring.com/stores/horrorbabble-merch Search HORRORBABBLE to find us on: AUDIBLE / ITUNES / SPOTIFY Home: www.horrorbabble.com Rue Morgue: www.rue-morgue.com Social Media: facebook.com/HorrorBabble instagram.com/horrorbabble twitter.com/HorrorBabble
The music at the beginning is awesome! I love it! Another good story from William Hope Hodgson. Great narration. Thanks! I do love these nautical yarns! A reader or listener, not to mention a mariner, can tell Mr. Hodgson spent his fair share of time at sea. The superstions we mariners have seethes out of the characters.
My husband Ric, a most sensible, levelheaded gent has traveled worldwide. He spent years in the merchant marine. And he relished the quiet time: the late 'dogwatch' (midnight to 4 a.m).... up on deck, utterly alone. Modern ships nowadays are so safe and pretty much everything is mechanized, or digital. Nevertheless.... when out there on the vast ocean, with...nothing around you but the dark, the stars and the water......your mind DOES get to working...what...if...
This was top class. Very well-written and suspenseful; nothing like the desert of the open sea to provide a canvas for one’s darkest imaginings-and nothing like the vast unknownness of her depths to cough forth the most improbable entities and anomalous phenomena, natural...or otherwise. The trope of the undersea earthquake causing an upheaval of ¿godknowswhat ALWAYS draws me in, as it’s such realism! Earthquakes and tsunami heave up the most wondrously grotesque oddities in their aftermath .
Is there a longer version from horribable of this story? The pace and length feels too quick and short. I appreciate and enjoy what you've posted., it seems to end before I'm ready👍
Hodgson was a significant inspiration on Lovecraft. Particularly "The Night Land" and "House on the Borderlands". However, HPL started writing his Cthulu mythos many years before he found Hodgson's works. So they both were original in their own way.
