“The Voyage of the Glen Carrig Boats” is the first part of a trilogy by William Hope Hodgson (“The Voyage of the Glen Carrig Boats”, “The House on the Edge” and “The Phantom Pirates”), the works of which are not united by a single hero or events, but the general concept of the incredible. Connected with the sea from a young age, Hodgson learned from his own experience what secrets the ocean depths hide, which in his work became a kind of metaphor for the dark aspects of human existence inaccessible to “objective” materialistic knowledge. Having devoted a number of books to aquatic themes, the writer included in his trilogy two “sea” novels with the “adventure” flavor inherent in this literary genre: here are the gigantic “Sargasso” islands, incorporating ships of all eras, and ghostly pirate brigs - a clear paraphrase of “The Flying Man” Dutchman...