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    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.

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    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