Tales of the Haunted Titanic Series

In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a giant of the deep rouses from a ghostly slumber, taking a chance to make history at history's end. From the text: "Since then, tens of thousands of ships have sunk in the World Ocean or the rivers that trickle into it, or the seas that once touched the soles of the ocean's feet. Every ship that sinks, whether crewed or abandoned, leaves behind a spirit of varying vigor, fated to loosely follow its mortal course until the end of time. Every one, that is, save one. A hundred years ago, a great ship, a vast ship, perhaps the grandest ship since the days of Marjik, slipped beneath the surface of the water with only the locust whine of its few, bobbing survivors to note its passage into death. Its spirit never rose to traverse the North Atlantic." Commemorating the 100th observance of the sinking of the Titanic.

In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a mystery surrounds the funeral of one of the survivors, and the only clue is provided by one of the victims. A ghostly tale of time, memory and the razor's edge. From the text: "The icy shock struck him like a hammer, from the inside out. His lungs filled with what at first he thought was sea water. He was under, his clothes dragging him like lead weights. He did not know if he was going up or down. A force, like the hand of God, shoved him hard through the currents. He split the surface, his face bracing in the breeze. He had spun more than once underneath, and now bobbed, facing the ship. One of the great funnels had cracked off, still steaming, and struck the ocean. Had it fallen a mere thirty feet in his direction, and Jack would have been crushed. A glowing mass of sparks burst over its surface. Fires lit and snuffed in a losing war against liquid. The ship had broken in two. A cable twitched like a violin string, and snapped. Jack was sucked down with the funnel."

From the Text: "An undulating blanket of ruin spread to the horizon off the port side of the Mackay-Bennett. Wedged between gray sky and blue-black sea lay the thin brown netting of shattered wood and the dead. The Embalmer saw a bright flash of color: the circle of an unstained red and white lifebelt, bobbing, empty. He tried to count the bodies, corked and frozen stiff on the waves. Ten. Tens. Fifty. More, spreading, to his untrained eye, for a nautical mile, perhaps more. The crew made grim and determined expressions, but to the Embalmer, it was a ripe field. He made no effort to contain his round-faced happiness. 'We can work with this, lads!' he said, nodding, 'We can work with this!'" In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a humble cable-repair ship is called into emergency duty: a mission to recover the RMS Titanic's dead. As a talented embalmer begins to draw bodies from the deep, a body threatens to draw him into the depths. Written in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Titanic disaster.

"The ice was strange. He felt warmth along his arms as he approached it. At first, he wondered if it was not ice, but a new food chemical he did not know. Science had taken off at such a remarkable clip in the new century, he learned something new every day. The men handling the ice, however, wore gloves, as would be expected. He held his hand half a foot from a block on the top of the stack. Heat poured off the ice like it was a stove top. The block began to move toward his outstretched hand, and the other men in the refrigerator room looked at him with shock. Howard pulled his hand back and turned away, feeling like a fool. The work here was decidedly not for him. He withdrew to find duties elsewhere. He began at the furnaces." In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a bankrupt aristocrat follows a dark trail of revenge to the Boiler Room Number 6 on the grand ship. What he doesn't know is that something even darker is trailing after him. Commemorating the 100th observance of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

A memorial. A relic. The greatest ocean liner to sail the Atlantic. The true treasures of the RMS Titanic: her passengers and crew, victims and survivors, trapped in that brief moment when the world's tallest building, its most luxurious hotel, and its grandest expression of wealth could walk on water. In 100 years, the RMS Titanic has only gotten bigger. But there is a forgotten treasure of the Titanic, a spirit, a precious memory that was ignored, and then lost. Out of the icy darkness, it returns. And with it, so do her ghosts. Collecting a half dozen stories of the uncanny, the improbable and the unreal, Tales of the Haunted Titanic shares the ghostly alternate history of the Unsinkable and the Unthinkable. Some stories include: A mystery surrounds the funeral of one of the survivors, and the only clue is provided by one of the victims. As a talented embalmer begins to draw bodies from the deep, a body draws him into the depths. One survivor is unaccounted for: a song which outlives its performers. A bankrupt aristocrat follows a dark trail of revenge to Boiler Room Number 6. A giant of the deep rouses from a ghostly slumber, taking a chance to make history at history's end. Collecting: Titanic Rising On Jack Thayer's Watch The Autumn Ice of Springtime The Unsinkable Supernatant Pronouncing the Mackay-Bennett, and Introducing: The Giant, Ben Guggenheim, a new story exclusive to Tales of the Haunted Titanic.