[PW] ?short story id

[Sharon Custer]

Title: The Voice in the Night
Author: William Hope Hodgson
Year: 1907
Type: SHORTFICTION

Publications:

    * Avon Fantasy Reader, #1 1947, (1947 , Donald A. Wollheim, Avon Book
Co.; New York, $0.35, 132pp, magazine)
    * Beyond Time and Space, (1950 , August Derleth, Pellegrini Cudahy,
$4.50, 704pp, hc, anth) Cover: unknown
    * Best Tales of Terror 2, (1965 , Edmund Crispin, Faber & Faber, 21/-,
224pp, hc, anth)
    * Deep Waters, (1967 , William Hope Hodgson, coll)
    * Science Fiction by Gaslight, (1968 , Sam Moskowitz, World, hc, anth)
    * The Avon Fantasy Reader, (1969 , Donald A. Wollheim, George
Ernsberger, Avon, #S384, $0.60, 173pp, pb, anth)
    * Masters of Terror 1, (1977 , William Hope Hodgson, coll)
    * Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, April 1982, (1982 , T. E. D.
Klein, TZ Publications, Inc., $2.00, 0104pp, magazine) Cover: Kevin Larson

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[mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of Dennis
Lien
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [PW] ?short story id

At 09:59 AM 1/29/2007, you wrote:
>I remember a very creepy short story about a man discovered in a rowboat.
>He is covered with fungus/mold and relates his story to a ship's crew. He
>refuses to come on board for fear of infecting them but asks for food to
>take back to his wife (?) who has also been infected.  I remember that was
>in a collection of Alfred Hitchcock stories but, sorry, I don't remember
the
>author or title.


That one is "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson.  It was
reprinted
in the July 1989 issue of ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE; I don't
recall
offhand (and don't have a quick way to check at the moment) if it was also
in
one of the Hitchcock anthologies, though I'd not be surprised.  It can also
be found in the following anthologies, among others, and in many collections
of Hodgson's stories:

* The Voice in the Night, (ss) Blue Book Nov 1907

     * Beyond Time and Space, ed. August Derleth, Pellegrini Cudahy 1950
     * Best Tales of Terror 2, ed. Edmund Crispin, London: Faber & Faber
1965
     * Science Fiction by Gaslight, ed. Sam Moskowitz, World 1968
     * The Avon Fantasy Reader, ed. Donald A. Wollheim & George Ernsberger, 
Avon 1969
     * Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine Special #1 1984
     * Dark Company: The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories, ed. Lincoln Child, St. 
Martin's 1984
     * 65 Great Spine Chillers, ed. Mary Danby, Octopus 1982
     * Tales of the Dark, ed. Lincoln Child, St. Martin's 1987
     * The Book of Dracula, ed. Leslie Shepard, Wings 1991
     * The Dracula Book of Classic Horror Stories, ed. Leslie Shepard, 
Robert Hale 1992

But as noted, it's probably not the story sought, though the theme is
similar
(and there are other old fantasy/horror stories on the same theme, such as
"Fungus Isle" by Philip Fisher and, I think, "Moss Island" by Carl Jacobi).
I'll dig around and see if I can track down the one recalled from a
Hitchcock anthology later today.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu

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