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 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
