Celia Thaxter

An Island Garden

Algernon Blackwood

F. Marion Crawford

Morgan Robertson

Oliver Onions

William Hope Hodgson

Osie Turner

This anthology contains the strangest nautical tales. These are not your typical ghost stories; rather, they walk the line between science, the supernatural, and the bizarre. These stories have everything from invisible sea monsters to rabies-infected crews turning the ship into a blood bath, odd twins, and sea-worshipping Pagan captains. Rifts in time and space and even real life mysteries grace these pages. Table of Contents: The Voice in the Night From the Darkness and the Depths The Sea Fit Man Overboard! The Grain Ship Phantas The Ghost Pirates The Wreck of the Titan Appendix 1- Commentary Appendix 2- The Titan and The Titanic: When Life and Art Collide Appendix 3- A Tryst: A Poem by Celia Thaxter

Strange Tales of the High Seas

Ten short stories and seventy-one poems on a variety of topics.

Stories and Poems for Children

"Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) was born in Portsmouth, NH. When she was four, her father became the lighthouse keeper on White Island in the Isles of Shoals. After resigning his post eight years later, he built a resort hotel on Appledore Island in Maine. The first of its kind on the New England coast, the hotel became a gathering place for writers and artists during the latter half of the 19th century. In her last year of life, Celia published this work, in which she lovingly describes her Appledore garden and its flowers. The flowers she grew in her cutting garden filled her own rooms and those of the hotel, and this work became famous for its descriptions of the old-fashioned flowers she grew there. Her island garden, a plot that measured 15 feet square, has been re-created and is open to visitors."

Eva Chase

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