The Upper Berth

In the night, a stranger launches himself from the upper berth and races into the passage. By morning, Room 105 is bitterly cold, its porthole wide open—and he is nowhere to be found.

On a June crossing of the Atlantic, the narrator takes a berth aboard the Kamtschatka, expecting little more than a cramped cabin and an inconvenient roommate. Instead, the ship’s doctor warns him that men who slept in Room 105 on the last three voyages went overboard—and now the captain wants to know what became of his vanished companion. F. Marion Crawford’s two uncanny tales move from a haunted ship to a gloomy Welsh castle, where a young man’s solitary life is unsettled by a figure from his dreams. In Room 105, is the danger mere superstition—or something already aboard?

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