Abstract
ECHOES MAY BE FOUND in several of Conrad's novels and short stories from Falk to Nostromo, not to mention Freya of the Seven Isles and The Shadow-Une, from works derived from the same mythical nucleus that fostered Captain Marryat's The Phantom Ship (1838-39) as well as works by Poe, Melville, Salgari, and, most notably, Wagner's Derfliegende Hollander (1843). The mere sighting of the Dutchman's horrifying phantom ship with her blood-red sails creates on its own, in Wagner's opera, an anguished omen of imminent shipwreck and every possible kind of misfortune for the crews of other vessels. Although made up of fierce pirates, these crews hasten to make the sign of the cross in front of the supernatural apparition and make off with unfurled sails. As the Dutchman sings in the opera's first act:
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