Building on the success of their classic crime series, the British Library now does reprints and collections across many genres, including the supernatural. From the Depths is specific - 'strange tales of the sea' - but right up my alley as a diehard fan of William Hope Hodgson. The great man appears here with one I hadn't come across before - 'The Mystery of the Water-Logged Ship' - but there are other tales of the Sargasso, by Ward Muir and Frank H Shaw, plus two of floating islands. The last, 'No Ships Pass', is by Lady Eleanor Smith, is very weird and captivating. A great collection. Not a dud amongst them. I wonder if there is a Volume Two...?
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