The Ghosts of the Past

On Stranger Tides 1718: John Chandagnac's ship is seized by pirates; offered the choice to join the crew or be killed, he decides that a pirate's life is better than none at all. He soon becomes part of a Caribbean pirate empire ruled by Blackbeard. A practitioner of voodoo, Blackbeard is building an army of the living and the dead, to voyage in search of the ultimate prize: the legendary Fountain of Youth. The Stress of Her Regard 1816: Michael Crawford's wife is brutally murdered on their wedding night, and a vengeful ghost claims him as her own husband. Crawford is soon forced to travel the Continent in the company of the most doomed poets of his age - Byron Keats and Shelly - who all have a part to play in his fate... Hide Me Among the Graves 1862: London is a city of stinking fog and dark, winding streets. Adelaide McKee, a former prostitute, arrives on the doorstep of John Crawford, father of her only child, long presumed dead. She has recently learned that the girl lives - but her life and soul are sought by a ghostly vampire. And this is no ordinary spirit; the bloodthirsty wraith is that of John Polidori, Lord Byron's doctor...