David Stuart Davies

Irish Ghost Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Blend the wild and fevered Irish imagination with a 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 as Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Rosa Mulholland. Within these pages 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.

The haunting tales featured in this beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Irish Ghost Stories have been selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509831456
• Artikelnr.: 45699311

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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