PseudoPod 691: Half-Men of the Night Marie (https://pseudopod.org/2020/02/28/pseudopod-691-half-men-night-marie/)
Author: Robin Husen (https://pseudopod.org/people/robin-husen/)
Narrator: Halloween Bloodfrost (https://pseudopod.org/people/halloween-bloodfrost/)
Host: Alasdair Stuart (https://pseudopod.org/people/alasdair-stuart/)
Audio Producer: Marty Perrett (https://pseudopod.org/people/marty-perrett/)
“Half-Men of the Night Marie” first appeared in Phobos magazine issue 4, published in 2017
Show Notes
From the Author:
“Moby Dick is one of my favourite novels, and this story is inspired by the same incident which inspired Herman Melville; the fate of the whaling ship Essex, which was sunk by a sperm whale, leaving the surviving crew drifting at sea for 95 days.”
Further reading from Alasdair:
https://www.nate-crowley.com/
Three half-men in a lifeboat drifted on the methane sea. Her ship’s name, Night Marie, was written on the stern like a tombstone. The ship, along with the rest of her crew, had sunk thirty hours before sunset. Sparks, the ship’s half-boy, crouched in the bows, his ears still ringing with the sound of screams, though the sea had long since swallowed them up. Hobb, the mate, lit the lanterns. Beyond their circle of light, the darkness was total, as though they sat inside a bubble in a well of ink.
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