The Ghost Pirates

Description

The charming story of the boat “Mortzestus,” an unfortunate vessel frequented by “an excessive number of shadows.” The bringing together topic is by all accounts the unpleasant powers that sneak just underneath the facade of what we, in gigantic imprudence, accept to be “reality.” Malign powers may surface at any second to drag us to demolition or more awful.

Book Excerpt

t twelve movements far off; when, suddenly, the quiet figure made three fast walks to the port rail, and moved over it into the ocean.

I raced aside, and gazed over; yet nothing met my look, with the exception of the shadow of the boat, clearing over the twilight ocean.

How long I gazed intently at vacantly into the water, it w