The power of the mighty waters and the infinite horizon; abyssal nights, sunsets and sunrises, high and low tides, unknown spaces – all of these have made the sea a perfect subject for writing: about love and wandering, but also about fear, fantasy, mystery and horror. On waves of wild imagination and life experience acquired in countless journeys in reality and imagination, five writers sail with us on a literary journey on the dark side of the sea: between shipwrecks and islands shrouded in fog, fairy tales, ancient rituals and divine storms in their power, we will also meet in another sea – a sea as longing, a distant echo that accompanies you deep into the land. This anthology contains classic stories by such great writers as Herman Melville, Jack London, and Howard Phillips Lovecraft, interspersed with literary gems by Winston Churchill, William Hope Hodgson, Robert Louis Stevenson, and João Guimarães Rosa. Together they create a book that has the power to both chill and delight its readers, while sitting on the beach or as evening falls and a glass of whiskey is poured. - - - This collection introduces us to a brilliant group of talents from English and American literature: Herman Melville, the adventurous deckhand who became the greatest American seafaring writer of all time; Robert Louis Stevenson, the sickly boy who spun stories in the solitude of his room and later wrote classics such as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Sir Winston Churchill, who, in addition to being an angry president known for his masterful speeches, was a military correspondent and prolific writer and won the Nobel Prize for his historiographical work; Jack London, a writer, philosopher, passionate socialist and seafarer, one of the pioneers of supernatural literature, who left behind such perfect works as White Fang and Iron Heel; William Hope Hodgson, the boxer sailor, who made a living by writing terrifying sea stories for newspapers; the brilliant Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the master of the short story who lived in solitude and poverty without knowing that he would achieve fame and be remembered as one of the founding fathers of modern horror and fantasy fiction. Finally, a gift story by João Guimarães Rosa, the doctor, diplomat and one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the 20th century. This book is the tenth book in the "Reserve" collector's series.