And I have read more of these things, and of many things besides, in the books men gave me when I was young and filled with wonder.īut more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. The old captains of the sea came often to my grandfather and told him of these things, which in turn he told to my father, and my father told to me in the long autumn evenings when the wind howled eerily from the East. In the days of my grandfather there were many in the days of my father not so many and now there are so few that I sometimes feel strangely alone, as though I were the last man on our planet.įrom far shores came those white-sailed argosies of old from far Eastern shores where warm suns shine and sweet odours linger about strange gardens and gay temples.
Past that beacon for a century have swept the majestic barques of the seven seas.
Far from the shore stands the grey lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen when the tide is low, but unseen when the tide is high. La mayor parte de sus obras fue publicada en la revista Weird Tales.I am Basil Elton, keeper of the North Point light that my father and grandfather kept before me. Desde niño se formó en lecturas mitológicas, astronomía y ciencias. Los paisajes de la naturaleza de su región natal, Nueva Inglaterra, influyeron en su temperamento fantasioso y melancólico. Escritor estadounidense, su obra rebasa en realidad la confluencia de géneros como la literatura de terror y la ciencia ficción hasta cristalizar en una narrativa única que recrea una mitología terrorífica de seres de un inframundo paralelo. Lovecraft (Providence, Rhode Island, 1890-1937).
The tone and temperament of "The White Ship" speaks largely of the Dream Cycle literary structure that Lovecraft utilized in other stories such as The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926) and "The Cats of Ulthar" (1920). However, the story cannot be entirely excluded from mythos continuity either, since it makes reference to preternatural, godlike beings. It was first published in The United Amateur (Volume 19) #2, November 1919.Unlike many of Lovecraft's other tales, "The White Ship" does not expressly tie into the popularized Cthulhu Mythos. Sinopsis "The White Ship" is a short story written by science fiction and horror fiction writer H.
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