/lit/ - Literature

I had little else to do so I read another of Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser short stories, 'The Sunken 'Land' from 1942. I'm glad I did because this is a rollicking seafaring adventure and horror narrative. After finding an ancient key, Fafhrd falls overboard his sloop, and finds himself in the company of a Northmen sea raiding party heading for a rumored sunken city. There are more than a few Lovecraftian flourishes; eery wall carvings, phosphorescent walls, and unsettling sea creatures shifting in the shadows. The depiction of a ship wrestling with stormy seas also beats any I've read from William Hodgson. Best of all, Leiber has captured vividly the feeling of being swept along with viking-esque sea raid.