The Dark Legacy — K.G. McAbee

Noah Macgregor and his sister Holli were just following their dog Gilbert through the dark hallways of the old house on the South Carolina coast that once belonged to the dread pirate Captain Ambrose Craven. They find Gilbert just in time to see him run full speed into--and it looks like, through--a painting. Naturally, they follow their dog; wouldn't you? But just imagine their surprise when, on the other side of the painting, he and his sister find themselves in a strange sort of colonial South Carolina, where animals talk and skeletons walk. Stranger still, Captain Ambrose Craven is alive, even more terrible than his reputation, and has a diabolical plan in mind for the kids.