William Hope Hodgson was a prolific English author who also served in World War I up until his death in 1918. Hodgson produced many classics in the horror, ghost, and fantasy genres of fiction including The House on the Borderland, The Night Land, and Carnacki, the Ghost Finder. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" is a horror novel that was published in 1907. The book centers around the adventures of the survivors who escapted a shipwreck.