Irish Ghost Stories

Informationen zum Autor David Stuart Davies is an author, playwright and editor. His fiction includes six novels featuring his wartime detective Johnny Hawke and six Sherlock Holmes novels - the latest being Sherlock Holmes & the Devil's Promise (2014). He has also penned a series of dark gritty crime novels set in Yorkshire in the 1980s. The first, Brothers in Blood , appeared in 2013 and the second, Innocent Blood in 2015. He is committee member of the Crime Writers' Association, editing their monthly publication, Red Herrings , and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. David is regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes and is the author of two Holmes plays, Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act and Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life , which are available on audio CD. He has written all the Afterwords for all the Collector's Library Holmes volumes as well as those for many of their other titles. Klappentext An anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers. Zusammenfassung Over the centuries Ireland has preserved a magical, mystical aura that lends itself to tales of the supernatural - from leprechauns and fairies to ghosts and hauntings. Stories and storytelling have always been central to Irish folk culture, and this anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Patrick Kennedy, George Moore and W. B. Yeats. The result is a collection of tingling tales of poltergeists, supernatural experiences, haunted houses, death warnings and banshees that will chill the blood of readers and listeners alike.

Product details

• Authors: D.S. Davides, David Stuart Davies
• Assisted by: David St. Davies (Editor), Stuart David Davies (Editor)
• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2010
• EAN: 9781905716821
• ISBN: 978-1-905716-82-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 157 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION / Horror, Ireland, Hallowe’en, Anthologies: general, Fiction: general and literary, Hallowe?en, Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic fiction: general and literary