“You can pray to God that they won’t stumble across us. It strikes me that whether they’re ghosts, or not ghosts, they’re blood-gutted pirates.”Pirates. Ghost ships. Murder. Man-eating alligators. Bloody revenge. Put them all together and you’ve got a winning combination of the most exciting stories ever written. It’s enough to make anyone say, “Shiver me timbers!”—with delight. The spirits of Davy Jones’s locker and his rivals have a long and colorful history among sailors and lovers of literature. From “The Shadow of the Sea” to “The Pirate Who Could Not Swim” to “The Life, Atrocities, and Bloody Death of Blackbeard,” these boisterous brigands come back to life in all their devil-may-care glory, stealing our hearts and imagination with their brashness. Prepare yourself for a thrilling ride.