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Dark Fantasy Pirates

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This community is dedicated to a genre of fiction. As far as I know, this genre doesn't have a name. I see it as the pirate equivalent of the Weird West genre. That is, stories set during the golden age of piracy but with supernatural elements. So pirates facing skeletons, ghosts, zombies, and the kraken. For lack of a better name, I'm calling it Dark Fantasy Pirates.

I know there aren't many works in this genre but I'm still going to document the few I find.

See also: !weirdwest@lemmy.zip

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Tales of the Black Freighter (watchmen.fandom.com)

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Edit: Not a real series. There's just the one story in Watchmen and an adaptation of that.

Tales of the Black Freighter is a swashbuckler anthology pirate comic book series. It was published by National Comics (which later became DC Comics).

Shying away from mainstream adventures, Tales of the Black Freighter's radical and innovative stories show a disturbing reality against metaphysical terrors and perverse comments on the human condition.

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