The many spirits of Manga Rava—an old Chinese man smoking his pipe, a Black Dog, the disgruntled ghost of a "long pig" (cannibal victim). A Samoan poltergeist. The murder victim seen at Christmas with his face all over blood and his head covered with banana leaves, just as when living. The ghost who stank of decay and a thousand corruptions. Gripping tales of shipwreck, slavers, cannibalism, whaling, native burials, curses, sorcery and all sorts of island eeriness.