Your Own Dark Shadow: A Selection of Lost Irish Horror Stories by Jack Fennell
English | 2024 | Horror
An old house turns out not to be as empty as its new owners supposed. A nobleman barters his soul for arcane knowledge. A stranger with a terrible curse looks for an unsuspecting victim to take her place. Monsters, killers and unquiet spirits stalk these stories, drawn from the places where folklore, the Gothic and modern fiction intertwine – Irish literature’s dark and ever-present shadow.
Contents:
Introduction: Everybody Wants to Ruin the World – Jack Fennell
The Lianhan Shee – William Carleton (1834)
Dhirro Dheerlha – J. H. K. (1836)
The Dark Lady – Anna Maria Hall (1866)
The Death Spancel – Katharine Tynan (1896)
The Lamparagua – May Crommelin (1897)
The House of Horror – Mildred Darby (1908)
A Vanished Hand – Clotilde Graves (1914)
The Middle Bedroom – Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1918)
Aonghus Ó Cruadhlaoich – Micheál Mac Liammóir (1923)
My Friend Trenchard – Eimar O’Duffy (1936)
The Third Woman – Tomás Bairéad (1940)
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