With a word of warning to those of a nervous 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.

With a word of warning to those of a nervous 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.

         SHERIDAN LE FANV

Green Tea

The Familiar

Mr Justice Harbottle

The Room in Le Dragon Volant

Carmilla

Madam Crowl's Ghost

Squire Toby's Will

Dickon the Devil

The Child that Went with the Fairies

The White Cat of Drumgunniol

An Account of Some Strange Disturbances

  in Aungier Street

Ghost Stories of Chapelizod

Wicked Captain Walshawe of Wauling

Sir Dominick's Bargain

Ultor de Lacy

The Vision of Tom Chuff

Stories of Lough Guir

          MICHAEL BANIM

The Rival Dreamers

              SHERIDAN LE FANU

The Spectre Lovers

          THOMAS CROFTON CROKER

The Haunted Cellar

Legend of Bottle Hill

              PATRICK KENNEDY

The Ghosts and the Game of Football

            JEREMIAH CURTIN

The Blood-Drawing Ghost

St Martin's Eve

         WILLIAM MAGINN

A Vision of Purgatory

            GERALD GRIFFIN

The Brown Man

The Dilemma of Phadrig

         SHAN F. BULLOCK

Th' Ould Boy

           LETITIA MACLINTOCK

Far Darrig in Donegal

Jamie Fred and the Young Lady

              JAMES BERRY

The Adventures of Foranan 0 'Fergus, the Physician

           WILLIAM CARLETON

Moll Roe's Marriage or The Pudding Bewitched

The Three Wishes

           BRAM STOKER

The Judge's House

        FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD

The Dead Smile

              OSCAR WILDE

The Canterville Ghost

           CHARLOTTE RIDDELL

Hertford O'Donnell' s Warning

The Last of Squire Ennismore

             DOUGLAS HYDE

Teig O'Kane and the Corpse

          DANIEL CORKERY

The Eyes of the Dead

          A. E. COPPARD

The Gollan

          GEORGE MOORE

A Play-House in the Waste

           ROSA MULHOLLAND

The Ghost at the Rath

          FORREST REID

Courage

         DOROTHY MACARDL

The Prisoner

         SHERIDAN LE FANU

The Watcher

Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess

Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter

The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh

The Dream

A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family

          CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER

The Legend of Stumpie's Brae

                TRADITIONAL

Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts

John Reardon and the Sister Ghosts

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The Witch Hare

                TRADITIONAL

Donald and His Neighbours

         PATRICK KENNEDY

Hairy Rouchy

          THOMAS CROFTON CROCKER

The Legend of Knockgrafton

Daniel O'Rourke

        D. R. MCANALLY, JR

About the Fairies

Satan as a Sculptor

           HERMINIE KAVANAGH

Darby O'Gill and the Leprechaun

        D. R. MCANALLY, JR

The Defeat of the Widows

The Henpecked Giant

The Leprechaun

      THOMAS CROFTON CROKER

Master and Man

        D. R. MCANALLY, JR

How the Lakes were Made

Taming the Pooka

The Sexton of Cashel

          JOSEPH JACOBS

The Field of Boliauns