The Derelict, by William Hope Hodgson

Undertow: Familiar Haunts

Realm

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Part 2 of Spooktacular September with a full cast production of The Derelict, by William Hope Hodgson. Beware strange derelict vessels on the high seas, for they may contain horrors beyond imagination. Adapted from the public domain short story The Derelict by William Hope Hodgson, produced by Mind’s Eye Productions and podcast by arrangement with Podcast Universe Productions. Undertow is a production of Realm, hosted by Fred Greenhalgh. Find more shows like Undertow on Apple, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are served. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And welcome back to Undertow Realms podcast, taking you on winding roads of the weird and the wicked.
0:12.1	I'm your host, Fred Greenhalch. Our spooky season warm up continues today with another story from
0:17.6	Bill DeFries's Nightmares on Congress Street Collection, and an unnerving
0:21.9	story of a derelict ship that is called Naturally the Darylict by William Hope Hodgson.
0:27.1	If you like what you hear, want to hear more stories like it, check out the Midnight
0:30.2	Matinees podcast by Pocket Universe Productions, which collects the anthology this originally
0:34.2	appeared in, as well as new original tales, find Midnight Matinees
0:37.7	wherever podcasts are served. Now, it should go without saying that you should be careful when
0:42.4	you explore seemingly abandoned vessels, but people don't always learn that lesson, as we'll
0:46.9	learn in The Darylict.
0:48.3	Music The Report! Report, Mr. Burles!
1:16.6	Yes, Mr. Burles.
1:30.9	Yes, Captain.
1:32.1	We've lost over half the sails, and both the four-gallon mast and the giboom have been sprung.
1:37.2	Two of our boats have been lost, and one of the pig styes was washed overboard.
1:41.9	The ships carry in some three to four feet of water through her seams.
1:45.0	By my reckoning, we've been carried off course about four to five hundred miles northward of Madagascar.
1:52.0	Well, seat of the pumps in the mast have Mr. Connors put together a sewing detail.
1:56.0	I want those sails re-rig before third watch.
1:59.0	Aye, sir. Doctor.
2:02.2	Morning, doctor.
2:03.5	Will you be joining me for breakfast?
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