“The Brute” by Joseph Conrad
Number 13 of 27 Great British Short Stories
Premise: Death Ship!!
The Brute was written in early 1906, and published in The Daily Chronicle in December 1906. It was later collected in A Set of Six, published in 1908 (UK) and 1915 (US). The other stories in this collection of Joseph Conrad’s work were The Informer, An Anarchist, Gaspar Ruiz, The Duel, and Il Conde.
Review: Another “story I was told” story.
Outa ten: 10
Keywords: supernatural, superstition, maritime
Quotes: “the latter must have been a few years over thirty, and was certainly not the sort of individual that gets abashed at the sound of his own voice, “
Words:
Caparisoning – to provide with or as if with a rich ornamental covering : adorn
Scantling – Scantling is a measurement of prescribed size, dimensions, or cross sectional areas.
When used in regard to timber, the scantling is (also “the scantlings are”) the thickness and breadth, the sectional dimensions; in the case of stone it refers to the dimensions of thickness, breadth and length
Hawser /ˈhɔːzə/ Noun a thick rope or cable for mooring or towing a ship.
Look up: nothing
Afterlives of the story/connections to other stuff: well, Christine by Stephen King, I guess…
Is it online? Yes
marchudson.net 
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