The Grain Ship

"The Grain Ship" by Morgan Robertson is a thrilling novel filled with maritime mystery and suspense on the high seas. The story centers around a strange and deserted grain ship, discovered with only dead rats onboard, setting a spine-tingling stage for a haunting tale. The narrative unfolds in a restaurant where the protagonist overhears the story of the ship, triggering a memory of a half-witted tramp the protagonist once encountered at a cattle camp. After falling overboard, the tramp lost nearly a decade of his life as the story explores the themes of trauma and the uncanny while confronting terror and mystification.