![]() ![]() ![]() Notable examples are "The Voice in the Night" (November 1907 Blue Book), in which castaways are transformed by a fungus they have been obliged to eat – this was filmed as Matango ( 1963 vt Attack of the Mushroom People vt Fungus of Terror) directed by Ishirō Honda – and "The Stone Ship" (1 July 1914 Red Magazine as "The Mystery of the Ship in the Night" exp in The Luck of the Strong, coll 1916), in which an ancient wreck is raised to the surface by a volcanic eruption, bringing many weird creatures with it. His fantastic sea stories – the first was "From the Tideless Sea" (April 1906 Monthly Story Magazine exp with addition of "More News from the Homebird" in Men of the Deep Waters, coll 1914) – owe an obvious debt to the traditions of supernatural fiction, but he derived his horrific imagery mainly from the scientific imagination. ![]() ![]() His first published story was "The Goddess of Death" for Royal Magazine in April 1904. (1877-1918) UK author who ran away to sea in his youth and was deeply affected by his experiences aboard ship: he never lost a profound fascination, reflected in all his poetry and most of his stories and essays, for the mysteries of the sea. ![]()
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