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Captain Kidd, the treasure hunter, turns from pirate hunter to pirate.

Braver than the men, Anne Bonny and Mary Read are ferocious female pirates.

Englishman-turned-Algerian pirate John Ward becomes ruler of the Tunisian empire.

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We've been haunted—and hunted—by shapeshifting werewolves for millennia.

Grace O'Malley defies gender conventions of her day and becomes the most feared and respected leader of both the land and the sea, eventually rising to Chieftain.

Discover how vampires crept into our nightmares and why they've stayed there.