The Meridian Log (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798255176601)

"The sea is very fine this morning. I intend to go above. The air will do me good. I think-"
The diary of Captain Edmund Vane, master of the brig Perseverance, covers ninety-seven entries across the year 1712. It begins with the precision of a competent man and ends in a locked cabin with no one inside.

What happened in between is a matter of record.

The record cannot be trusted.

Written entirely as a ship captain's private journal, The Meridian Log is a novel of psychological horror set during the Golden Age of Piracy. As Vane's account of his voyage begins to contradict itself - the dates slipping, the crew thinning, the coastline appearing where no coastline should be - the reader is left to do what the narrator cannot: determine what actually happened.

A novel designed to be read twice. The truth is in the text from the first page.

Author: J. C. Aldred
ISBN-13: 9798255176601
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2026
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d