The Night Boat (book)
 First edition | |
| Author | Robert McCammon |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror |
| Published | 1980 |
| Publisher | Avon Books |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 350 |
The Night Boat is a 1980 novel by Robert McCammon. It is about a marine salvage diver, David Moore, who uncovers a sunken U-boat underneath a Caribbean lagoon. The boat mysteriously rises to the surface, and the crew are revealed to be still alive.[1]
Reception
[edit]Publishers Weekly, reviewing the 2013 reprint, praised its "vividly visceral scenes", but faulted it for "obvious twists", and plotlines that "fizzle" in a "rushed, anticlimactic ending".[2] Don D'Ammassa considered it to be "the most gripping of McCammon's early novels";[3] however, literary scholar Neil McRobert found it to be "unrepresentative of McCammon's oeuvre" and "derivative of more successful fiction by (a) more established author()."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/the_night_boat.html RmC
- ^ The Night Boat, reviewed at Publishers Weekly; published January 7, 2013; retrieved September 11, 2019
- ^ McCammon, Robert, in Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction, by Don D'Ammassa, published 2014 by Infobase Publishing
- ^ Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others, edited by Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy; published 2016 by McFarland & Company
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