Isle of the Undead

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Isle of the Undead

by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

EN·~59 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total
1

Transcriber's Note:

59:17

Description

A night on the sea turns unsettling as the breeze carries an eerie, yellow glow across the water. On board the yacht Ariel, the glamorous couple Cliff and Vilma feel a chill that hints at something far beyond a simple bout of nerves. Their laughter fades when a strange, ancient vessel emerges from the fog, its rotted timbers and ghostly oars moving as if pulled by an unseen hand.

The sight of a dead crew—pale, rigid, and dripping with a centuries‑old dread—pushes the yacht’s passengers into a panic they can’t rationalize. Their new captain, a cryptic man named Leon Corio, offers a unsettling calm while the sea seems to pulse with an otherworldly drum. As the moon hangs like a cold eye, the party realizes the island they head toward may harbor more than just rocks and waves. The story builds a tense, atmospheric horror that leaves listeners hovering between curiosity and dread.

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Language

en

Duration

~59 minutes (56K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2010-05-21

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

1910–2003

A lively figure from early science fiction fandom, he helped shape the field not only as a writer but also as the founder of Fantasy Press, one of the first specialty science fiction publishers. His career later stretched in surprising directions, including ministry and religious publishing.

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