Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories

by Sam Gafford (Foreword), M. Regan (Contributor), Christine van Antwerp (Contributor)

Buried treasure, greed and envy are powerful forces in the minds of many, but at sea the consequences can be terrifying and deadly. With tales of pirates, deathly fogs and ferocious rocks, these dark tales of the haunted mind, trapped like ghosts at sea, are sure to entertain and enthrall.

Genres: Horror, Pirates, Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics

479 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 2017

Reviews

[Raelene]

DNF - I read the first 7 stories and decided that this just wasn’t for me. I enjoy pirate books, but these seemed too slow paced and often incomplete.

I was writing reviews for each as I read them, so even though it’s only for a few of them, here they are:


1. Blow The Man Down - 3/5
This was a good story to start this anthology with. I didn’t love it, it just didn’t really hook me in, but it was a good, quick read.

2. Forsaken - 2/5
This was actually really similar to the first story, but I found it to be a bit slower paced despite being slightly shorter. It was fine, but meh.

3. Here There Be Monsters - 2.5/5
This story was just okay. It started a bit slow, then got interesting, but then it kind of just got confusing? I guess it just wasn’t for me.

4. Requiem For A New World - 1/5
I honestly was just really bored reading this story. Despite its short length, I found myself wanting to skim read a lot of it, because it just wasn’t pulling me in.

5. Ocypete - 1.5/5
I didn’t care for this story. It was short, which at least made it a pretty quick read.

6. The Secret Sharer - DNF
I couldn’t get into this story. I tried a few times, and it just didn’t work for me.

7. Huitzilopochtli, God of Human Sacrifice - 2.5/5
This was fine, interesting honestly, but it felt incomplete.

[Aimée · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Since the first man gazed upon the ocean, he has feared it."





Christine van Antwerp: Blow the Man down

Ein Frischling entdeckt bei einem Inselausflug eine einsame Hütte und ein riesiges Collier. Ob es so clever ist, es einfach einzustecken?



Erica Barnes: Forsaken

Zwei Frauen, gestrandet und von ihrer Crew verlassen. Eine fängt an, Geister zu sehen...



Brad Carson: Here there be Monsters

Eine Meerjungfrau entwickelt ein ungutes Interesse für Landatmer... sehr dramatisch, schöner Twist.



Adrian Chamberlin: Requiem for a New World

Ein junger Mann schließt einen Pakt mit dem Teufel, um dem Tod durch Haie zu entgehen... starke Davy-Jones-Vibes.



Margaret Collins: Ocypete

Tagebucheinträge, die von einer Crew berichten, die sich vor einem Papagei fürchtet



Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer

Ich versuche, mich an diese 15-seitige Geschichte zu erinnern und kann es nicht.



Denzell Cooper: Huitzilopochtli

Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie man das ausspricht und keine Ahnung, wie ich die seltsamen Satzkonstruktionen vorlesen soll. Abgebrochen.



James Fenimore Cooper: The Red Rover (Ch 1-4)

A propos seltsam: Wo atmet man, wenn man einen JFC-Satz vorliest? Abgebrochen.



Stephen Crane: The open Boat

Verwirrend witzige Erzählung über den Rest einer Crew eines untergegangenen Schiffs, die versuchen, in einem Dingy Land zu erreichen.



F. Marion Crawford: Man overboard!

Erneut eine elends lange Geschichte über zwei Brüder, von denen einer über Bord geht ... oder nicht? Dann sind sie wieder sicher im Hafen und die Geschichte geht immer noch 10 Seiten? Und die sind auch noch im Großformat?



An dieser Stelle beschließen wir, diese Anthologie abzubrechen. Die ausgewählten Geschichten stammen zwar teils aus Klassikern, aber entsprechen so gar nicht unserem Geschmack. Bis auf unfreiwillige Komik zwischendurch. Schade, denn die Aufmachung ist wirklich umwerfend schön und ich hätte mir gern die ganze Reihe in die Bibliothek gestellt: Glitzerfolie auf dem nackten Hardcover, Prägungen, passendes changierendes Vorsatzpapier. Tjap, so bleibt es ein schönes Urlaubssouvenir aus Cornwall.

[Cas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is really amazing! It's a bundle of many different Pirate stories and each of them are amazing. It's really not just the same story over and over again, but each story is completely different and unique! Many classics.

[Janna · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun collection of ghost stories on the high seas from both classic and contemporary authors.

[Jasmine · Rating 4 out of 5]

5/9/22 - Ocupete, 4.1 🌠 .
29/01/2023 - Curse of the Paisley Witch, 4.1 🌠.
31/12/2023 - Here there be monsters, 2.4 🌠.

[Justine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like many short story books this one had its mix of bad, good, and great stories. I wasn't a huge fan of the stories that only included excerpts and not a full story. That being said, my favorite stories were in the beginning of the book and the end. If you like pirate and ghost stories then you will probably enjoy this.

[Tabitha · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great selection of well known and less well known stories, definitely worth a read 😄

[Wendy Woerner · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5/5

As the case with a lot of collection books I've read, I have to say I was not a huge fan of some of the stories in this but I did absolutely adore a majority of them. Again, just can't get over the ones I had to drag myself through

[Robert's reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

29/01/2023 - Curse of the Paisley Witch, 4.2

31/12/2023 - Here There Be Monsters, 2.0