#Ghost Ship

[the-golden-vanity]

Ahoy, shipmates!

Over the course of several delayed flights this weekend, I devoured a paperback copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. I found it enjoyable, if not a Great Classic Work Of Literature.

My question to you now is, there's a chapter in the middle of the book where our castaway hero encounters a plague ship. It moves erratically through the water before them, with what appears to be a smiling, nodding sailor at the rail, acknowledging Arthur and his fellow castaways.

However, as the ship approaches, the stench of death washes over our hero and his companions, and as it passes under their stern, they can see that all aboard the ship are dead of some terrible, unknown disease, and that the smile and nod they perceived were the rictus of death and the movement of a seagull feasting on the dead sailor's flesh.

This is my first time reading this book, and yet there's something viscerally, intensely familiar about this imagery. I feel like I've read this somewhere else before. Perhaps it was in a graphic novel, because my mental image of this scene appears in a sort of comic-book style.

Does anyone have any ideas where I might have encountered this before? Any help would be appreciated.

@clove-pinks @benjhawkins @ltwilliammowett @saranilssonbooks

#the narrative of arthur gordon pym of nantucket #arthur gordon pym #edgar allan poe #nautical fiction #nautical horror #maritime fiction #maritime horror #age of sail fiction #sea stories #plague ship #ghost ship

[ltwilliammowett]

Mary Celeste, by Vincent Alexander Booth, 2016

#naval art #mary celeste #ghost ship #19th century #age of steam

[letmeinimafairy]

There's a burst of flame and flash of light

There on the tide is a frightening sight

As the tall ship in flames lights up the sky

It's been one of my favourite songs, and I finally found a suitable stone for it. A burning ghost ship on jasper, will be a brooch in a classical metal cast I think

#painted stones #ghost ship #sailing ship #miniature #rock painting #painted rocks #picasso jasper #minerals #jasper #sea #fire #illustration #miniature painting #nautical #naval art #thunderstorm #my art #SoundCloud

[talesfromthecrypts]

I do know one thing. I've seen strange things happen in the strait. But I know something else. Sea gives you an opportunity you take it.

Ghost Ship (2002) dir. Steve Beck

#ghost ship #horroredit #filmedit #userscary #usergiles #usercy #mygifs #so funny how jealous i was at 9 that my friend's sister was seeing this

[laurasimonsdaughter]

The interplanetary vessel was small and simplistic compared to those intended to jump between solar systems. It made the journey strangely restful, even the control room was quiet, without even a single beep from the radar.

Until it wasn't.

“SAFETY ASSESMENT: YELLOW”

The navigator scrambled upright in their chair as the captain slammed the alert button on her console. “What—”

“SAFETY ASSESMENT: ORANGE”

“Status report,” the captain demanded, tapping the ship’s security system to no avail. “What’s going on, Ship?”

“SAFETY ASSESMENT: ORANGE”

Beside them the radar gave a sudden beep.

“What in the depths is that?” the navigator snapped, staring at the monitor.

The captain had swivelled in her chair, checking the ship’s security monitor by force of habit before shifting her focus to the report produced by the radar. She froze. “That’s a ship.”

“It can’t be! There isn’t a single flight scheduled here, and any emergency travel would have signalled ahead.”

“Well, that’s the signature of a medium sized interplanetary vessel,” the captain bit back. “And I’m getting no—”

“CALCULATING COURSE CORRECTION”

The ship jerked and several warning lights gave a startled flash as the navigator let out a cry of surprise and reached for the manual override.

“Leave it!” the captain ordered.

“It’s trying to change our course!”

“Let it!”

The navigator stood by, staring in bewilderment as the captain pulled up the ship’s new route on the main monitor. It was only a slight correction, a minute diversion. Away from the unidentified object still pinging on their radar, that seemed almost to be taking a parallel course.

“They say there was a crew that had to evacuate and abandon their transport on a journey like this, some fifty years ago,” the captain said suddenly. “Their ship got caught in the debris around Utein’s libration point."

The navigator bristled. “We’re well out of the way of L4! There’s no chance—”

“I’m sure they thought so too.”

The navigator gaped at the captain, who was sitting with her hands resting beside the controls, letting the ship’s autopilot do as it pleased. It had sped up, and seemed to be signalling into empty space.

“You’re not seriously suggesting we’re dealing with a ghost ship,” they protested, angrily tapping another button. “None of my instruments are picking up anything.”

Around them the pressure of acceleration waned again, their ship once more confident in its course.

“COURSE CORRECTED”

 “Well,” the captain said mildly, looking at the vast expanse of space before her. “Whatever it was, I don’t think it was meant for us.”

On the radar, with a last, faint blip, the unidentified vessel disappeared.

“SAFETY ASSESSMENT: GREEN”

#laura drabbles #science fantasy #not a tag I'd ever thought I'd use but my sister has been feeding me the murderbot diaries #sci fi #ghost ship #ghost story #with kisses to my husband for teaching me about libration points

[dsamuelsonart]

The Flying Dutchman 🏴‍☠️

Watercolor on cold-press paper. 9 x 12"

#art #artists on tumblr #the flying dutchman #Phantom #Ghost ship

[horror-in-my-veins]

Horror titles by opening color

#horror movies #color theme #roygbiv #dawn of the dead #creepshow #Halloween #reanimator #the thing #the blob #black Christmas #friday the 13th #texas chainsaw massacre #ghost ship #gif set

[marril96]

Ghost Ship (2002)

#ghost ship #horroredit #horroredits #movieedit #movieedits #filmedit #filmedits #emily browning #robert ruggiero #bob ruggiero #my gifs #edit

[ashwilliam]

Karl Urban as Munder GHOST SHIP 2002 | dir. Steve Beck

#horroredit #classichorrorblog #userbrittany #userfilm #filmedit #cinemapix #uservickytoria #userscary #junkfooddaily #userhoffman #usercy #useremory #dilfgifs #ghost ship #gifs #2000s #karl urban #*mine #*gifs #*ghostship #flashing

[shawnfreki]

Photo of a ship at sea, circa early 1900s.

#ghost ship #fog #the sea

[cmhcny]

the "you're as beautiful as the day i lost you" but it's omega to terzo actually-

#im crying #wtf #they #ghost #ghost band #shitghosting #ghost hcs #headcanons #ghost headcanons #omega ghoul #ghost ghouls #terzo emeritus #terzo #papa emeritus iii #terzo headcanons #omega headcanons #terzomega #terzo x omega #ghost ship #mlm #my tag #cmhcny #hallucinating at this point #delulu even #sobbing

[secondhand-sin]

I am paying very close attention (I am full of shit)

a lil doodle of my self-insert being in love with rat man. I wanna bite his legs

#art #digital art #doodle #oc #original character #gay #self insert #ghost #ghost bc #ghost band #ghost fanart #ghost fandom #cardinal copia #nameless ghouls #ghost ship #papa emeritus iv

[ltwilliammowett]

The Flying Dutchman. A Ghost Ship that can never make Port, doomed to sail the Oceans forever. From The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, May to October 1904

#naval art #flying dutchman #ghost ship #friday the 13th #19th century #age of sail #naval myth #sailing ship #art

[haunted-planes]

Gay baby Jail time for the silly little horror torpedo

#lost anchor #woc #boats #pixar cars #monster oc #naval art #man I don’t know what to tag this shit #torpedo #Kaiten #ghost ship #disney planes #fish #aquarium #horror illustration #haunted planes

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Rudolf Sieber-Lonati

#Rudolf Sieber-Lonati #art #artwork #painting #Illustration #skeleton #ghost ship #cover art #cover books #vintage pulp art #horror aesthetic #terror aesthetic #German artist #German horror pulp

[keeperofdarkness22]

Ghost Ship | 2002

#horror #movies #horrormovies #movie #dead #ghost ship #ghost