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Irish Ghost Stories

Irish Ghost Stories

by David Stuart Davies
Hardback
Publication Date: 11/10/2016

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Blend the wild and fevered Irish imagination with their wonderful facility for recounting a dark, compelling tale, add a dash of the supernatural, and you have a potent brew of spine-tingling tales. This anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from such masters of the art of raising as Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Rosa Mulholland. Within the pages of this collection you will find strange accounts of haunted houses, death warnings from beyond the grave, and revengeful spirits, all guaranteed to stir the imagination and chill the blood.

Selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies.

Stories in this edition:
Sheridan Le Fanu
The Room in Le Dragon Volant
Madam Crowl's Ghost
Squire Toby's Will
The Child that went with the Fairies
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
The Vision of Tom Chuff

W. B. Yeats
The Curse
Hanraham's Vision

Bram Stoker
The Judge's House
The Secret of the Growing Gold

Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost

Mrs J. H. Riddell
The Old House in Vauxhall Walk
A Strange Christmas Game

Fitz-James O'Brien
What was It?
The Pot of Tulips

Thomas Crofton Croker
The Haunted Cellar

Jeremiah Curtin
St Martin's Eve

Daniel Corkery
The Eyes of the Dead

Rosa Mulholland
The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly
The Ghost at the Rath

ISBN:
9781509826612
9781509826612
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
11-10-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
158x100x32mm
Weight:
0.3kg
David Stuart Davies

David Stuart Davies is one of Britain's leading Sherlockian writers. He was editor of Sherlock Holmes The Detective Magazine, authored several Holmes novels, hit play Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act, Titan's Starring Sherlock Holmes and a biography of Jeremy Brett. He is advisor to the Sherlock Holmes museum, and contributed commentaries to DVDs of the Basil Rathbone Holmes films.

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