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The Lights Above The Mary Celeste: The Recovered Journal of Captain Benjamin Briggs
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Windy Hilltop Publishing
Published: Jun 24 2026
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They said the Mary Celeste was abandoned.
The journal tells a different story.
Inspired by the true mystery of the Mary Celeste, found deserted at sea in 1872, The Lights Above The Mary Celeste reimagines one of history's most chilling maritime disappearances as a dark historical mystery of alien contact, cosmic horror, and nautical suspense.
When the Mary Celeste is discovered drifting in the Atlantic, her cargo remains intact, her lifeboat is gone, and every soul aboard has vanished without explanation. No wreckage. No final distress. No human answer.
More than a century later, a modern recovery crew uncovers an impossible sealed object on an uncharted island. Inside is the preserved journal of Captain Benjamin Briggs, captain of the Mary Celeste. What begins as a disciplined record of weather, sail, cargo, and crew slowly becomes a terrifying account of lights above the black water, voices arriving from impossible distances, commands answered before they are given, empty spaces that seem occupied, and work continuing without the men who began it.
As Briggs struggles to protect his wife, his young daughter Sophia, and the crew under his command, the ship is drawn toward an intelligence not born of this world, waiting beyond the lights.
The ship returned.
Its people never did.
Blending historical fiction, maritime mystery, alien abduction, cosmic horror, supernatural suspense, and found-journal storytelling, The Lights Above The Mary Celeste is a haunting novel for readers fascinated by the true story of the Mary Celeste, unexplained disappearances at sea, ghost ship legends, UFO mysteries, first contact fiction, and atmospheric nautical horror.
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