Ghost Story in a Age of Dinosaurs
Inspired by a 1890s vintage short story and also the Ghostly Heads trailing a ship that is jinxed captured on a photograph
There were quiet whispers about the jinxed sea serpente,the
SS Hoare Fang.Rumour was the mothballed "Ghost Liner" was
being
brought back into service.A half century earlier,this land sailor's
designer,
had foreseen the continuing upheavals to land and sea,and had
installed
state of the art dragons-egg boilers on his new liner. Then Hoare Fang had impaled the Leviathon in a midships
collision,
and after the bigger Hoare Fang had reversed her engines.the
Leviathon
had capsized and sunk into her own bottomless pool of controlled
water.
The Leviathon had left no trace. But shortly after the tragedy,passengers aboard the Hoare Fang
reported
slimy weed covered dead feral dragons,the crew and passengers of
the
lost Leviathon,were somehow squeezing themselves through the
portholes
on moonlit nights and bedding with the terrified rich folk. The SS Hoare Fang had become a ship plagued by her victims.The boat ruined the company operating her.After the
bankruptcy
the jinx ship had been towed to a weedy patch of land ,her engines
shut down and she'd settled to the ground,apparently abandoned.
Times change. ***********************************************************************