Irish Ghost Stories - David Stuart Davies

n nDesigned 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. n nBlend 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.n nSelected and introduced by David Stuart Davies.n nStories in this edition: nSheridan Le Fanu nThe Room in Le Dragon Volant nMadam Crowl's Ghost nSquire Toby's Will nThe Child that went with the Fairies nAn Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street nGhost Stories of Chapelizod nThe Vision of Tom Chuffn nW. B. Yeats nThe Curse nHanraham's Visionn nBram Stoker nThe Judge's House nThe Secret of the Growing Goldn nOscar Wilde nThe Canterville Ghostn nMrs J. H. Riddell nThe Old House in Vauxhall Walk nA Strange Christmas Gamen nFitz-James O'Brien nWhat was It? nThe Pot of Tulipsn nThomas Crofton Croker nThe Haunted Cellarn nJeremiah Curtin nSt Martin's Even nDaniel Corkery nThe Eyes of the Deadn nRosa Mulholland nThe Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly nThe Ghost at the Rathn