Contents:

• A Descent into the Maelström (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Captain of the “Pole-Star” (1883) by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Upper Berth (1886) by F. Marion Crawford
• The Brute (1906) by Joseph Conrad
• The Boats of the Glen Carrig (1907) by William Hope Hodgson
• The Song of the Sirens (1919) by Edward Lucas White
• The Ship of Silent Men (1920) by Philip M. Fisher
• The Temple (1925) by H. P. Lovecraft
• Bells of Oceana (1927) by Arthur J. Burks
• Second Night Out [“The Black, Dead Thing”] (1933) by Frank Belknap Long
• The Black Kiss (1937) by Robert Bloch
• The Sea Thing (1940) by A. E. van Vogt
• Sea Curse (1928) by Robert E. Howard
• A Vintage from Atlantis (1933) by Clark Ashton Smith
• Derelict (1937) by Hugh B. Cave
• Sea-Tiger (1932) by Henry S. Whitehead
• The Women (1948) by Ray Bradbury
• The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth (1965) by Roger Zelazny
• The Wine-Dark Sea (1966) by Robert Aickman
• The Ferries (1982) by Ramsey Campbell
• The Night the Sea-Maid Went Down (1971) by Brian Lumley
• Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock (1984) by Joe R. Lansdale
• Message Found in a Bottle II, or: An Invitation from Your Captain (1990) by Nancy Holder
• A Sailor’s Pay (1991) by Jack Cady
• Deep Sleep (1992) by Matthew J. Costello
• Scape-goats (1984) by Clive Barker
• Between the Windows of the Sea (1985) by Jack M. Dann
• Dip in the Pool (1952) by Roald Dahl
• The Night Ocean (1936) by Robert H. Barlow
• Spawn of the Sea (1933) by Donald Wandrei