The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat   The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat is a gothic novel which was serialized in The New Monthly Magazine between 1838 and 1839. It was reprinted in 1839 in three volumes. The Phantom Ship was a popular text and would have been accessible to Clemence Housman prior to writing The Were-Wolf. The chapter titled “The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains” shares some similarities to the characters and narratives of The Were-Wolf, such as a seductive female werewolf who stalks rural communities, where she murders members of her quarries’ families. Like Housman’s White Fell, Marryat’s female werewolf also wears white attire and becomes part of her victims’ homes.The Flying Dutchman, a legendary ghost ship, brings despair and death to all who encounter her. Cursed by the captain’s deadly sins, the seventeenth-century ship and its crew are doomed to sail and suffer for all eternity – unless a holy relic can be brought to them. Philip Vanderdecken, the captain’s son, vows to rescue the ship from its living hell. In the employ of the Dutch East India Company, young Vanderdecken sets sail for a gripping series of adventures, from sea battles and shipwrecks to an encounter with a werewolf.

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