The Haunted Pampero (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

<p><strong>You can outrun the storm but you can't escape the wind that carries a ghost.</strong></p><p>In this classic of maritime horror by William Hope Hodgson the vast isolating ocean becomes the arena for an unnerving encounter.</p><p>The Pampero is a notorious violently cold wind that sweeps across the South American seas. But when a ship sails into this atmospheric maelstrom the crew quickly realizes the danger isn't merely meteorological. There is something profoundly wrong with the storm--something spiritual and silently malicious that has attached itself to the ship.</p><p>This is not a tale of typical ghosts but of the cosmic and environmental uncanny. Hodgson a master of weird fiction and a former sailor expertly channels the dread of isolation and the terror of facing an unknown entity whose presence is as vast and indifferent as the sea itself.</p><p><strong>Prepare for a claustrophobic journey into the heart of a wind that refuses to die.</strong></p>