The Tale Of The Ancient Mariner

<p><strong>The Tale of the Ancient Mariner: A Descent into Madness</strong></p><p> by <strong>Edward Freeman</strong></p><p>When the sea calls it never lets go.</p><p>In <em>The Tale of the Ancient Mariner: A Descent into Madness</em> Edward Freeman transforms Samuel Taylor Coleridge's immortal poem <em>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</em> into a dark psychological origin story of guilt isolation and eternal penance.</p><p>Through the eyes of <strong>Emrys</strong> a sailor cursed for a single damning act readers embark on a harrowing voyage aboard the doomed ship <em>Mercy's Light</em>-where faith falters the dead stir and the sea becomes both confessor and executioner.</p><p>Written in the lush evocative style of <strong>Clive Barker the terrifying cleanliness of Edgar Allen Poe</strong> and imbued with the mythic dread of <strong>H.P. Lovecraft</strong> Freeman's retelling blends gothic atmosphere with profound emotion. The novel closes exactly where Coleridge's poem begins when the Mariner grips the wedding guest's arm and speaks the first immortal words:</p><p> <strong>There was a ship...</strong></p><p>A haunting descent for fans of <em>dark literary fiction</em> <em>psychological horror</em> and <em>classic retellings.</em></p>