Anonymous ~16 hr read

The dashing young hero Wildfire Ned braves a phantom pirate ship crewed by skeletons, and a host of villains and marvels, in a rollicking Victorian penny-dreadful of high-seas terror.

This anonymous 1867 penny dreadful is a rousing Victorian adventure-horror serial. Lurid, breathless, of its era. Read it for a classic slice of the sensational cheap fiction that thrilled a mass audience, a ghostly skeleton crew, a bold young hero, and nonstop melodrama, a vivid artifact of the golden age of the British penny dreadful.

In its time

Published in 1867, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

~16 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).