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The Ghost Pirates (abridged)

William Hope Hodgson

First published 1909
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette


Copyright version The 2009 Night Shade collection The Dream of X [...] (viewed as "Look inside" at Amazon.com 2019-06-18) contains this work in its second part, "Copyright Versions". From the Introduction by Ross E. Lockhart (see), page xi: "... we move on to Hodgson's copyright versions, stripped-down abridgements of his best-known works, written to secure American copyright protections. Many of these have a "Cliffs Notes" feeling to them, particularly "The Ghost Pirates" and "Carnacki, the Ghost Finder". ... It is likely that these copyright versions were never intended by Hodgson to be seen by a reading audience ..." (emphasis added). This one is printed on 16 leaves, the 2009 Contents list implies.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1909 The Ghost Pirates, A Chaunty, and Another Story Paul R. Reynolds Collection 5
September 1984 Cover Spectral Manifestations Bellknapp Books Collection 1
October 1988 Cover Les spectres pirates Encrage Collection 81
September 2002 Cover Les pirates fantômes Terre de Brume Novel 191
2009 Cover The Dream of X and Other Fantastic Visions Night Shade Books Collection 291
October 2011 Cover The Dream of X and Other Fantastic Visions Night Shade Books Collection
January 2019 Cover The Dream of X and Other Fantastic Visions Night Shade Books Collection 291