A ship in the North Pacific is hailed by a man in a rowboat who begs them for some food, but will not approach any closer; he tells him of how he and his wife were shipwrecked on an island covered in a fungus which now consumes them as well.
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- contained in Adrift on the Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgsoncollection
- contained in Avon Fantasy Reader No. 1, February 1947anthology
- contained in Dark Company: The Ten Greatest Ghost Storiesanthology
- contained in Deep Waterscollection
- contained in Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabreanthology
- contained in Great Ghost Storiesanthology
- contained in Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terroranthology
- contained in Great Weird Talesanthology
- contained in Horrors from Haunted Seascollection
- contained in Horror Storiescollection
- contained in Masters of Terror: Volume Onecollection
- contained in Men of the Deep Waterscollection
- contained in Mysteries: A Classic Collectionanthology
- contained in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fictionanthology
- contained in Tales of the Darkanthology
- contained in The Avon Fantasy Readeranthology
- contained in The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of William Hope Hodgsoncollection
- contained in The Classic Horror Collectionanthology
- contained in The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Storiesanthology
- contained in The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Seacollection
- contained in The Ghost Pirates and Others: The Best of William Hope Hodgsoncollection
- contained in The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgsoncollection
- contained in The William Hope Hodgson Megapackcollection
- contained in Voices in the Night: Rare Storiescollection
- contained in William Hope Hodgsoncollection