Hundreds
of free horror stories
~ Horrors at Sea ~
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Anonymous -
A Misfit Ghost,
The Old Mansion |
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Gertrude Atherton -
The Bell in the Fog |
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S. Baring-Gould -
The “Bold Venture”
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A. C. Benson -
Out
of the Sea |
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Algernon Blackwood -
The Sea Fit
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A. Le Braz -
The Oarsmen, “Yannic-ann-ôd” |
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John Buchan - The Far Islands |
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Bernard Capes -
William Tyrwhitt’s “Copy”
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Robert W. Chambers -
Collector of the Port
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Wilkie Collins - “Blow Up with the Brig!” |
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F. Marion Crawford
- Man
Overboard!, The
Upper Berth |
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Dick Donovan
(J. E. P. Muddock) - The Doomed Man,
A Ghost from the Sea |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The
Captain Of The Polestar, “De Profundis”, The Fiend of the Cooperage, J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement,
Jelland’s Voyage, John Barrington
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Lord Dunsany
(Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett) - The Loot of Bombasharna
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William Hope Hodgson -
On the Bridge, The Captain of the Onion Boat,
The Derelict, The Finding of the Graiken, From the Tideless Sea (First Part), From the Tideless Sea (Second Part),
The Mystery of the Derelict, Out of the Storm,
The Sea Horses, The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder, Through the Vortex of a Cyclone, The Voice in the Night,
The Weed Men |
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W. W. Jacobs - Captain Rogers,
“Choice Spirits”, The Lost Ship,
Over the Side |
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Rudyard
Kipling - The Devil and the Deep Sea
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Jack London -
The Amateur M.D., Make Westing |
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Fiona Macleod
- The Ninth Wave |
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Guy de Maupassant
- The Wreck |
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Richard
Middleton - The Ghost Ship |
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Edward Page Mitchell
- The Last Cruise of the Judas Iscariot |
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W.
C. Morrow - A Tale Told by the Sea |
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Sir
Arthur Quiller-Couch -
The Roll-Call of the Reef, I Saw
Three Ships |
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W. Clark Russell - A Bewitched Ship,
The “Chiliman” Tragedy, The Lazarette of the “Huntress”, A Memory of the Pacific,
A Nightmare of the Doldrums, The Phantom Death,
The Secret of the Dead Mate, “Try For Her in Fifty”,
“So Unnecessary!”, The Transport “Palestine”
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M. P. Shiel -
The Man-Stealers |
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Harriet Prescott Spofford
- The Moonstone Mass |
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Robert Louis Stevenson - The Isle of Voices |
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Bram
Stoker -
The Watter’s Mou’ |
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H.
G. Wells - In the Abyss, Æpyornis Island, Jimmy Goggles the God,
The Sea Raiders |
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Edward Lucas White
- Sorcery Island |
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~ More Nautical Horror ~
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Louisa May Alcott -
Perilous Play |
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Anonymous - The Ghost of a Live Man |
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Louis Becke - A Basket of Breadfruit |
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A. C. Benson - The Isles of Sunset |
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A. Le Braz - The Five Drowned
Sailors, The Oarsmen |
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Owen Chase
- The Ship That Was Wrecked by a Whale |
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Winston Churchill - Man Overboard |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-
The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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Wilkie Collins - The Frozen Deep |
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Joseph Conrad
- The Black Mate, The Brute,
The Inn of the Two Witches |
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Florence
Coombe - Savagery Among the Black
Islands |
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Frank Cowper
- Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk |
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Allan Cunningham - The Haunted Ships |
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Lord Dunsany - Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean
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John Galt - The Black Ferry |
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Bret Harte
- High-Water Mark |
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Wilhelm Hauff
- The Story of the Haunted Ship |
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Thomas Henry Huxley - Mrs. Thompson Among the Cannibals |
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Washington Irving
- Guests from Gibbet Island |
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Jonas Lie - The Cormorants of Andvær,
The Earth Draws, Finn Blood,
The Fisherman and the Draug, The Huldrefish,
“It’s Me”, Isaac and the Parson of Brönö,
Jack of Sjöhölm and the Gan-Finn, Tug of War,
The Wind-Gnome
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Mrs. Belloc Lowndes - Price of Admiralty |
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Frederick Marryat - The Legend of the Bell Rock,
The Story of the Greek Slave |
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Herman Melville
- Hood’s Isle and the Hermit Oberlus, |
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Jessie Adelaide Middleton - The Haunted Ship,
Two Somerset Stories |
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Edward Page Mitchell - The Legendary Ship,
The Terrible Voyage of the Toad |
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Elliott O’Donnell
- Occult Inhabitants of the Sea and Rivers |
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Charles Perrault - Bluebeard |
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P’ou Song-lin
- The-Devils-of-the-Ocean |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
- Another Molokai |
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Eugène Sue
- The Raft of Death |
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P‘u Sung-ling - Foot-Ball on the Tung-T’ing Lake |
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Mark Twain -
The Burning of the Clipper Ship Hornet |
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Unknown - The Lanai Horror |
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Edward Lucas White
- The Song of the Sirens |

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