Irish Ghost Stories edited by David Stuart Davies

Irish Ghost Stories edited by David Stuart DaviesBlend 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

You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard

in times when women were expected to be seen and not heard

was responsible

With its wit

every encounter and every test along the way

' The Irish Times

But brave young women stand up for hope

Once arrested

like all dissenters

silence and deliberate deafness

How can Ruby get rid of it and feel like herself again

In times when women were expected to marry and have children