"The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson

Two fishermen are visited by a mysterious stranger in a rowboat out in the Pacific. He is desperately in need of food. But how did he come to be stranded on a mist-shrouded island? And why won't he let them shine their light? One things for certain...you will never look at a mushroom in the same way again... Please support my work: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/encryptedpod  https://ko-fi.com/encryptedpodcast Listen to the EnCrypted podcast on: Spotify Apple Podcasts  Amazon Music RadioPublic PocketCasts  Anchor  Google Podcasts  RSS and many other podcast platforms!! Find and follow on social media: https://linktr.ee/encryptedpod  About the episode: "The Voice in the Night" is a short story by William Hope Hodgson, first published in the November 1907 edition of Blue Book Magazine. Source text online. Theme music:  The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Incidental music: The House of Leaves by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4496-the-house-of-leaves License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Mary Celeste by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4024-mary-celeste License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license La Mer - 1 - De l'aube a midi sur la mer by Claude Debussy Link: https://musopen.org/music/14381-la-mer/ License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Kevin  MacLeod is a fantastic composer who has created royalty-free music in  almost every conceivable style to match every conceivable mood. Check  out his work! Sound effect attributions: https://freesound.org/people/Soundholder/sounds/425513/* https://freesound.org/people/julius_galla/sounds/434892/* https://freesound.org/people/hazure/sounds/23705/* https://freesound.org/people/jimsim/sounds/411087/* https://freesound.org/people/byjoshberry/sounds/435668/* *All used under the following Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Other public domain sound effects sourced at: https://freesound.org/ Image by enriquelopezgarre from Pixabay The recording was created using Audacity and distributed via Anchor. "I  hope you enjoyed this episode of the EnCrypted Classic Horror Podcast.  Being a creator can feel pretty lonely...especially when you're just  starting out. If you enjoyed the show please comment/like/subscribe.  Numbers don't tell a whole story - it would make a world of difference  to know someone is listening to my own voice in the night..."