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From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea
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Lena
Jun 13, 2021 rated it liked it
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No Ships Pass by Lady Eleanor Smith ★★★★½
The intro was correct, this story, written in the early 1930s, could have been the basis for Lost. Imagine a smaller cast that could not die. Madness!

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The Floating Forest by Herman Scheffauer ★★★★☆
You could read it as vengeance or fate, but either way the imagery was beautiful.

The Black Bell Bouy by Rupert Chesterton ★★★★☆
The most believable, and unexpectedly brutal, sea haunting story of the bunch. It was easier for me to ascribe malevolent person
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Canavan
Jun 20, 2021 rated it liked it
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“The Ship of Silence”, Albert R. Wetjen (1932) ✭✭✭½
“From the Darkness and the Depths”, Morgan Robertson (1913) ✭✭½
“Sargasso”, Ward Muir (1908) ✭✭✭½
“Held by the Sargasso Sea”, Frank H. Shaw (1908) ✭✭
“The Floating Forest”, Herman George Scheffauer (1909) ✭✭
“Tracked: A Mystery of the Sea”, C. N. Barham (1891) ✭½
“The Mystery of the Water-Logged Ship”, William Hope Hodgson (1911) ✭✭½
“From the Depths”, F. Britten Austin (1920) ✭✭✭
“The Murdered Ships”, James Francis Dwyer (1918) ✭✭✭
“The Ship That Di
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