
The Upper Berth by F Marion Crawford
How to be smug on a steamship and live to tell the tale.

How to be smug on a steamship and live to tell the tale.
Creaky clichés, bafflingly obtuse protagonists, and absurd setups.
Or how I learned to fear conversation.
What a long title for a short story. Compensating?
When a rom-com author decides to spook the Victorians.
Here’s a 600-plus page travel brochure, interrupted by a haunted castle.
Come for the cosmic horror, stay for the verbal waterboarding.
Mysterious figures on boats, tentacles, fungi, and more.
Cursed objects and indifferent bystanders from one of the OGs.
Clark Ashton Smith’s greatest hits of horny horrors and medieval mayhem.