William Hope Hodgson 
The Boats of the Glen Carrig [EPUB ebook] 

‘The Boats of the Glen Carrig’ is a horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1907. 
The novel is written in an archaic style, and is presented as a true account, written in 1757, of events occurring earlier. The narrator is a passenger who was travelling on the ship Glen Carrig, which was lost at sea when it struck ‘a hidden rock.’ The story is about the adventures of the survivors, who escaped the wreck in two lifeboats and how they encounter strange lands and weird creatures in their search for home. 
The novel is considered a nautical adventure classic.