Irish Ghost Stories

ISBN-13: 9781509826612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 584 str.

David Stuart Davies

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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.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.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 ChuffW. B. Yeats
The Curse
Hanraham's VisionBram Stoker
The Judge's House
The Secret of the Growing GoldOscar Wilde
The Canterville GhostMrs J. H. Riddell
The Old House in Vauxhall Walk
A Strange Christmas GameFitz-James O'Brien
What was It?
The Pot of TulipsThomas Crofton Croker
The Haunted CellarJeremiah Curtin
St Martin's EveDaniel Corkery
The Eyes of the DeadRosa Mulholland
The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly
The Ghost at the Rath

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Davies, David Stuart
David Stuart Davies is an author, playwright and editor and is regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes. His fiction includes novels featuring his wartime detective Johnny Hawke and several Sherlock Holmes novels - including Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Promise. He is a committee member of the Crime Writers' Association, editing their monthly publication, Red Herrings, and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.