William Hope Hodgson (1877 - 1918) was probably the greatest writer of horror of the sea who ever lived. He has been described as a writer on whom the mantle of Poe has fallen and no less an authority than H.P. Lovecraft wrote: few can equal him in conveying feelings of the spectral and the abnormal. This volume, the first in the Masters of Terror Series represents the very best of Hodgson's tales of sea horror: the Voice in the Night A Tropical Horror The Mystery of the Derelict The Terror of the Water-Tank The Finding of the Graiken The Stone Ship The Derelict Masters of Terror is a series of collections of short stories by those authors who have made their name in the genre of the macabre and supernatural. Each volume is edited by an authority on the author in question and includes an introduction giving details of the author's life and works.