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Snarleyyow is a darkly humorous nautical tale set in the early 1700s, featuring an evil ship captain, an indestructible dog, and a tangled web of smugglers and political intrigue. As the British Navy clashes with Jacobite rebels, the absurdity of fate plays out at sea. A swashbuckling blend of adventure, satire, and high-seas mischief.

Young Jack Easy, full of his wealthy philosopher father's impractical notions of the rights of man and perfect equality—and failing to find much sympathy for them on land—resolves to join the navy, reasoning that "although the whole earth has been so nefariously divided among the few, that the waters at least are the property of all." He soon finds, though, that life in the Royal Navy is not quite the egalitarian ideal that he had expected, and is a good deal more eventful.

This collection contains the best of classic horror writing, with the atmospheric genius of Edgar Allan Poe, the invention and eeriness of Bram Stoker, and the suspense of Wilkie Collins amongst the terrifying gems. In this veritable schooling in the origins of modern-day horror and fantasy, some of the best minds in the history of English literature take on the world of vampires, werewolves, and the supernatural.