This collection brings together a wide range of writers whose stories helped shape the enduring tradition of pirate adventure fiction. Among them are Robert Louis Stevenson, author of the classic Treasure Island; Rafael Sabatini, whose Captain Blood became one of the great swashbuckling novels of the twentieth century; and William Hope Hodgson, whose The Ghost Pirates introduced a darker supernatural dimension to maritime fiction. Their works, along with stories by James Fenimore Cooper, Howard Pyle, Murray Leinster, and others, helped establish the enduring legends of the pirate in literature.
