The
Pit of Despair is the new novella by Simon R Green
(PS Publishing £11.99):
“Captain Varles, of the pirate ship Revenge, is desperate to find a treasure
big enough to pay off all his debts. His last venture didn’t work out too well;
he lost his whole crew to the ghouls of Ravensbrook. He sailed home on an empty
ship, accompanied only by his female first mate Jarryl, and the enigmatic
sorcerer Shade, called by some the Hanged Man.
Port Crimson is the only settlement on
Paradyce Island, where the ancient rules and traditions of the Red Brotherhood
apply. Unable to find a crew there willing to ship out with him, Varles
persuades a voodoo witch called Mother Macabre to conjure up a crew of ghosts
and dead men to sail in search of the greatest treasure of all — that of
Captain Firebeard; who buried his legendary hoard in the great and terrible Pit
he dug on Shaft Island ... which he left surrounded by terrible protections.
But Varles’ old enemy, Captain Shatterhand, of the pirate ship Medusa, is also
after the treasure. So the race is on; and the devil take the hindmost.”
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