These precariously perched structures have been the homes and workplaces of keepers whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives, from cruel seas. While that way of life may have faded away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we still have their stories. The more than thirty tales featured here span the heights and depths of human experience: the blind lighthouse keeper tending a light in the Arctic Gircle, the intrepid young woman saving ships from wreck beginning at just age twelve, the desperate plight of a crew cut off for forty days with meager supplies, the lighthouse haunted by the clacking sound of a long-passed keeper's ghostly typewriter. Interweaving literary inspiration and elements from Jules Verne, Virginia Woolf, and Edgar Allan Poe, and accompanied by beautiful illustrations, nautical charts, maps, architectural plans, and curious facts, these illuminating stories will transport the reader, in a book as full of wonder as the far-flung lighthouses themselves.