Irish Ghost StoriesWordsworth Editions, 2005 - 1102 pages With a word of warning to those of nervous a disposition, Wordsworth presents this spellbinding collection of chilling Celtic tales of the macabre, all drawn from the rich and varied literary tradition of a culture long enchanted by things supernatural, 'a land where ghosts and ghost-seers are so common'. Featuring the imaginative writing of such towering masters of the genre as Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Patrick Kennedy, Thomas Crofton Croker and George Moore, this volume of ghoulish masterpieces from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is an encapsulation of the arcane lore, magical landscape and fantastic creativity of the Irish. Don't attempt to read these horrifying tales alone in an empty house. Your blood will run cold as the unreal becomes real and the impossible all too possible. Indelible images will possess your imagination and haunt your dreams. Make sure all the lights are on and the doors are bolted. |
Contents
SHERIDAN LE FANU | 9 |
Courage 786 | 28 |
The Familiar | 41 |
Mr Justice Harbottle | 79 |
The Prisoner 793 | 93 |
The Room in Le Dragon Volant | 113 |
Carmilla | 227 |
Madam Crowls Ghost | 297 |
Stories of Lough Guir | 481 |
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess 834 | 489 |
MICHAEL BANIM | 493 |
SHERIDAN LE FANU | 509 |
THOMAS CROFTON CROKER | 521 |
Legend of Bottle Hill | 527 |
PATRICK KENNEDY | 535 |
The BloodDrawing Ghost | 538 |
Squire Tobys Will | 311 |
Dickon the Devil | 340 |
The Child that Went with the Fairies | 350 |
The White Cat of Drumgunniol | 359 |
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances | 371 |
Ghost Stories of Chapelizod | 391 |
Wicked Captain Walshawe of Wauling | 416 |
Sir Dominicks Bargain | 430 |
Ultor de Lacy | 444 |
The Vision of Tom Chuff | 468 |
The Watcher 799 | 472 |
St Martins | 545 |
GERALD GRIFFIN | 562 |
SHAN F BULLOCK | 577 |
LETITIA MACLINTOCK | 584 |
JAMES BERRY | 594 |
WILLIAM CARLETON | 603 |
The Three Wishes | 617 |
BRAM STOKER | 638 |
FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD | 655 |
OSCAR WILDE | 675 |
Common terms and phrases
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