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The Ghost Pirates |  | Author: William Hope Hodgson
Publisher: Public Domain Books
Category: eBooks
This item is no longer available
Rating:  5 reviews
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Publication Date: February 1, 2004
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Product Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Gripping July 10, 2010
M. T. Bowers (Northern Illinois)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This short (1719 locations) novel grabbed me right away and didn't let go until I'd finished it. It is genuinely creepy, and probably shouldn't be read alone in a creeky old house during a midnight thunderstorm. Unless you like that kind of thing. There is a lot of technical nautical detail, but I didn't find it annoying; it just gave the author street (sea?) cred, as far as I was concerned. I can't help thinking that the writers for the movie Pirates of the Caribbean (Black Pearl) might've read this as kids, only the atmosphere in The Ghost Pirates is much more deadly.
For free -- why not?
Good book July 5, 2010
Jadzia (Georgia, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book in one afternoon and part of the next morning. Didn't want to put it down. Some of the dialogues were a little hard to read and I tried to avoid getting stuck on the names of the different parts of the ship. Overall, I give this book 5 stars....especially since it's free!!! :)
 Not for non-sailors May 1, 2010
M. Kertok (Bartlesville, OK USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Like the other reviewers, I downloaded this book because it was free. I would have enjoyed the book more if I were more familiar with nautical terms, which I thought the Kindle dictionary did a very poor job on, and if the author had not gone into such boring detail in using these terms. If you are not familiar with sailing and the terminology of it, you will find this a frustrating read.
Very good story March 5, 2010
Terri Haines (Oklahoma)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I also only downloaded this book because it was free and ended up really liking it. I didn't expect such an old story to be very scary, but the story is pretty frightening. The imagery is compelling. Once you get in the mindset of the time period and the ship location, the story unfurls quickly. After reading this one, I looked up the author's other books for Kindle (there are several) and discovered some are weirder than others, but they all kept my attention and made me think about what would come next in the plot. My only complaint is that the story wasn't longer!
Good Old Fashioned Ghost Story September 21, 2009
L. McKelvy (Texas USA)
42 out of 42 found this review helpful
The Ghost Pirates was entertaining and holds up incredibly well for its age; I'm actually a bit surprised it has not received an update as a screenplay as it would translate well into a period horror movie. I downloaded this because it was free and fell into the horror genre. I was not disappointed and it is well worth the read. No blood and guts, but plenty of death and supernatural occurrences in the Nautical/Gothic sense. It is written in first-person, and is filled with archaic nautical terms which the Kindles dictionary handles quite nicely (for the most part).
I don't give away detailed plot points in my reviews, but in a nutshell this is a story about a sailor who takes a job on a reputedly haunted ship. It follows the basic formula of disbelief and isolation, followed by a group realization that something is not quite right. Appropriately creepy, it reminds me of something one might hear from The Chowder Society (if you are unfamiliar with that group, read Ghost Story by Peter Straub).
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