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Captain Blood first appeared in a series of nine stories, under the general title of "Brethren of the Main," which appeared in the Premier Magazine, beginning December 1920. The stories were reprinted in Adventure Magazine in 1921. All nine stories are reproduced here. In 1922 Sabatini stitched most of the stories into the novel "Captain Blood." However he did much more than stitch, and eventually Captain Blood became a very popular novel, praised by George MacDonald Fraser among others. Peter Blood was a favourite of readers and the writer. Sabatini wrote fifteen more stories about him, one included in Turbulent Tales and the others distributed in two collections titled The Chronicles of Captain Blood and The Fortunes of Captain Blood. Two of the stories in "Brethren of the Main" ("Blood-Money" and "Santa Maria") later appeared in The Chronicles of Captain Blood. —Ruth Heredia