Dead Man's Chest Dead Man's Chest "Dead Man's Chest" (also known as "Fifteen Men On The Dead Man's Chest" or "Derelict") is a fictional sea song, originally from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island" (1883). It was expanded in a poem, titled "Derelict" by Young E. Allison, published in the "Louisville Courier-Journal" in 1891. It has since been used in many later works of art in various forms. Stevenson found the name "Dead Man's Chest" among a list of Virgin Island names in a book by Charles Kingsley, possibly in reference to the Dead Chest Island off Peter Island in the British Virgin
Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson Square of Sevens, and the Parallelogram: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note" by Robert Antrobus that was supposedly written in 1735. However, it is believed that he was the author. In 1906, under the pseudonym Xavier Mayne, Stevenson published the homosexually themed novel "", and in 1908 a sexology study, "The Intersexes", a defense of homosexuality from a scientific, legal, historical, and personal perspective. Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (January 29, 1858, Madison, New Jersey – July 23, 1942, Lausanne, Switzerland) was an American author. He used the pseudonym Xavier Mayne. Edward Prime Stevenson was born