Heart of Darkness (1902), a tale of a man sent into the Belgian Congo to track the elusive and maniacal Mr. Kurtz, is considered Conrad's best work, and one of the twentieth century's most important novellas.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Edgar Allan Poe's novella of a rite of passage for a young man and his love of the sea.

"William Wilson,' , also by Edgar Allan Poe, is a story about a man's double. A man is persecuted throughout his life by a man with the same name, who mayor may not be real.

"The Double" by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky is another story concerning a man's double.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(1798), Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem about an ancient seafarer and his experiences with the supernatural.