He has been described as a writer on whom the mantle of Poe has fallen and no less an authority than H.P. Lovecraft wrote: few can equal him in conveying feelings of the spectral and the abnormal. This volume, the first in the Masters of Terror Series represents the very best of Hodgson's tales of sea horror:the Voice in the NightA Tropical HorrorThe Mystery of the DerelictThe Terror of the Water-TankThe Finding of the GraikenThe Stone ShipThe DerelictMasters of Terror is a series of collections of short stories by those authors who have made their name in the genre of the macabre and supernatural. Each volume is edited by an authority on the author in question and includes an introduction giving details of the author's life and works.