The Night Boat (book)

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The Night Boat
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First edition
Author Robert McCammon
LanguageEnglish
GenreHorror
Published1980
Publisher Avon Books
Publication placeUnited States
Pages350

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]

Reception

Publishers 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

  1. ↑ https://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/the_night_boat.html RmC
  2. ↑ The Night Boat, reviewed at Publishers Weekly ; published January 7, 2013; retrieved September 11, 2019
  3. ↑ McCammon, Robert, in Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction, by Don D'Ammassa, published 2014 by Infobase Publishing
  4. ↑ 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


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