H.P. Lovecraft 
The White Ship 

'The White Ship’ is a short story written by science fiction and horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a robed, bearded man is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full. Elton walks out across the water on a bridge of moonbeams and joins the bearded man on this ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth…