The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgsen

Another Tales to Terrify story. And it’s a classic tale of horror and dread! The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson.

It was a dark, starless night. We were becalmed in the Northern Pacific. Our exact position I do not
know; for the sun had been hidden during the course of a weary, breathless week, by a thin haze
which had seemed to float above us, about the height of our mastheads, at whiles descending and
shrouding the surrounding sea.

With there being no wind, we had steadied the tiller, and I was the only man on deck. The crew,
consisting of two men and a boy, were sleeping forward in their den, while Will—my friend, and the
master of our little craft—was aft in his bunk on the port side of the little cabin.
Suddenly, from out of the surrounding darkness, there came a hail:

“Schooner, ahoy!”