Irish Ghost Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library)

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 thisSheridan 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?