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Irish Ghost Stories

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內容簡介 A collection of tingling tales of poltergeists, supernatural experiences, haunted houses, death warnings and banshees 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. 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.Stories in this edition:Sheridan Le FanuThe Room in Le Dragon VolantMadam Crowl�s GhostSquire Toby�s WillThe Child that went with the FairiesAn Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier StreetGhost Stories of ChapelizodThe Vision of Tom ChuffW. B. YeatsThe CurseHanraham�s VisionBram StokerThe Judge�s HouseThe Secret of the Growing GoldOscar WildeThe Canterville GhostMrs J. H. RiddellThe Old House in Vauxhall WalkA Strange Christmas GameFitz-James O�BrienWhat was It?The Pot of TulipsThomas Crofton CrokerThe Haunted CellarJeremiah CurtinSt Martin�s EveDaniel CorkeryThe Eyes of the DeadRosa MulhollandThe Haunted Organist of Hurly BurlyThe Ghost at the Rath

作者介紹

作者介紹 David Stuart Davies is an author, playwright and editor. His fiction includes six novels featuring his wartime detective Johnny Hawke and six Sherlock Holmes novels - the latest being Sherlock Holmes & the Devil's Promise (2014). He has also penned a series of dark gritty crime novels set in Yorkshire in the 1980s. The first,Brothers in Blood, appeared in 2013 and the second, Innocent Blood in 2015. He is committee member of the Crime Writers' Association, editing their monthly publication, Red Herrings, and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. David is regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes and is the author of two Holmes plays, Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act and Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life, which are available on audio CD. He has written all the Afterwords for all the Collector's Library Holmes volumes as well as those for many of their other titles.

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