The Voice in the Night

Terror on the high seas when crewmen on a ship in the northern Pacific encounter a man whose body is slowly being absorbed by a fungal infestation. William Hope Hodgson’s seminal horror/science fiction short story first published in 1907.<br/><br/>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br/><br/>William Hope Hodgson was a gifted English author of horror, fantasy and science fiction who produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels. Hodgson's work would later prove inspirational to many science fiction and fantasy writers. Hodgson was a cabin boy and sailor in the 1890s and used his personal experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the Sargasso Sea Stories. His novels, such as The House on the Borderland (Alan Moore collects rare editions of Hodgson best-known work) and The Night Land, feature more cosmic themes, but several of his novels also focus on horrors associated with the sea. He was killed in action on the Western Front in 1918.<br/><br/>PRAISE FOR WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON<br/><br/>The House on the Borderland<br/><br/>‘Awesome… this spook house is well worth the visit<br/>New York Times<br/><br/>‘The Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer’<br/>Terry Pratchett<br/><br/>‘The true note of cosmic horror’<br/>H.P. Lovecraft