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Title: Hodgson scores with haunted sea stories
Review: William Hope Hodgson, whose life was tragically cut short in WWI, spent years at sea while a teenager and young man, and his experience with that life allowed him a familiarity and ease in telling sea yarns. The stories do have a theme that crops up regularly, namely, the device of the Sargasso Sea, the seaweed 'island' that inhabits the mid-Atlantic. All of the stories are entertaining, and a couple are classics. You will recognize one of them as an old television episode. Some stories are more engrossing than others, but on the whole, this is a book you will have trouble putting down, if you like sea yarns and weird tales. The poems, while not great poetry, also pack an emotional punch, and I'm glad they were included.
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