Author:William Joseph Cosens Lancaster

Short works

 * The Slaver's Revenge, in Yule Logs, ed. G. A. Henty, 1898
 * Samana Kay in Yule Tide Yarns, ed. G. A. Henty, 1899

Novels

 * The Secret of the Sands (1879)
 * Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War (1884)
 * The Pirate Island; a story of the South Pacific (1884)
 * The Voyage of the 'Aurora' (1884)
 * The Congo Rovers; a Story of the Slave Squadron (1885)
 * The Log of the Flying Fish; a story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure (1887)
 * The Rover's Secret; a tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba (1887)
 * The Missing Merchantman (1888)
 * The Doctor of the 'Juliet' (1892)
 * The Cruise of the 'Esmerelda' (1894)
 * The Pirate Slaver; a story of the West African Coast (1895)
 * Jack Beresford’s Yarn (1896)
 * The Log of a Privateersman (1896)
 * For Treasure Bound (1897)
 * The Homeward Voyage (1897)
 * A Pirate of the Caribbees (1898)
 * An Ocean Chase (1898)
 * The Castaways (1899)
 * Across the Spanish Main (1906)
 * Dick Leslie's Luck (1906)
 * Geoffrey Harrington’s Adventures (1907)
 * With Airship and Submarine (1908)
 * Blue and Grey (1908)
 * A Middy in Command; a tale of the Slave Squadron (1909)
 * Under the Chilian Flag; a tale of war between Chili and Peru (1909)
 * Harry Escombe; a tale of adventure in Peru (1910)
 * The Cruise of the 'Thetis'; a tale of the Cuban Insurrection (1910)
 * Overdue; the story of a missing ship (1911)
 * A Middy of the Slave Squadron (1911)
 * A Middy of the King (1912)
 * The Adventures of Dick Maitland; a tale of unknown Africa (1912)
 * A Strange Cruise (1912)
 * Two Gallant Sons of Devon (1913)
 * Turned Adrift (1913)
 * The Cruise of the 'Nonsuch' Buccaneer (1914)
 * The First Mate (1914)
 * Through Veld and Forest (1914)
 * In Search of El Dorado (1915)
 * A Chinese Command; a Story of Adventures in Eastern Seas (1915)
 * Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun (1916)
 * The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn (1922)
 * The Wreck of the Andromeda (1922)
 * The Cruise of the 'Flying Fish', the Airship-submarine (1924)
 * In the Power of the Enemy (1925)

Re-issued Work
For Treasure Bound (1897) is an edited single volume reissue of the author's first book, the two volume Secret of the Sands (1878). Some of the chapters are the same, word for word, others have been tighten up or reordered.

Falsely attributed work

 * Some Leisure Lyrics (1902)

This last work (available on Archive.org) was reprinted and attributed to William Joseph Cosens Lancaster but appears to have been written by William John Lancaster, the Secretary of the Prudential Assurance Company.