pIThe Grain ShipI 1914 is a collection of short stories by Morgan Roberston. Published a year before the authors death IThe Grain ShipI compiles works of short fiction originally published in IHarpers MonthlyI INew Story MagazineI and IThe Sunday MagazineI. The ten stories of IThe Grain ShipI showcase Robertsons skill for yarnspinning while benefitting from his experience as a merchant sailor. Dining alone at an upscale restaurant an old sailor overhears an intriguing conversation at the next table over. He listens as a retired sea captain discusses the discovery off the coast of Spain of a merchant ship abandoned and overrun with rats. Intrigued at first the sailor soon remembers an encounter nearly three decades old. While making his way across Arizona as a cattle driver thinking of nothing more than returning to sea he meets a stranger in distress with a faded anchor tattooed on his arm. Taking him to his shelter he realizes the stranger has lost his memory that he has no idea of who or where he is. When a rat runs across the floor of the shelter he suddenly remembers his experience on a grain ship bound from San Francisco a disastrous voyage on which the whole crewsave for himselfdisappeared. The Grain Ship is a tale of terror illness and doom on the high seas by an author whose experience as a sailor serves him well. Collected in this volume are nine more stories published during Morgan Robertsons brief yet productive career as a professional writer including From the Darkness and the Depths Noahs Ark and The Argonauts. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript this edition of Morgan Robertsons IThe Grain ShipI is a classic work of American fiction reimagined for modern readers.p