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]
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Author | Robert McCammon |
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Language | English |
Genre | Horror |
Published | 1980 |
Publisher | Avon Books |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 350 |
Reception
editPublishers 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