📕 Rafael Sabatini was an outstanding Anglo-Italian writer of historical adventure stories and romances of the early 20th Century. This collection brings together some of the most celebrated of his many short stories, in a new hand-edited volume. This anthology includes The Risen Dead, The Bargain, The Opportunist, The Plague of Ghosts, The Sword of Islam, The Poachers, The Sentimentalist, Duroc, Kynaston's Reckoning, Jack o'Lantern, The Devourer of Hearts, The Captain of the Guard, The Abduction, The Malediction and The Siege of Savigny.