'Suddenly the upper rim of the clear setting sun disappeared behind the hill of Knockdoula, and it was twilight. Each child felt the transition like a shock ... and the rounded summit of Lisnavoura, now closely overhanging them, struck them with a new fear.'
Ireland’s rich literary history has within it a vein of potent fantastic fiction, drawing upon a deep folkloric tradition brimming with tales of the aos sí (the people of the fairy mounds), the Otherworld and timeless deities. Writers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries added a new chapter to this tradition, reworking elements of folklore into modern tales of the weird and macabre.
Featuring stories by classic authors such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Charlotte Riddell alongside pieces by Lady Gregory, Katharine Tynan, Elizabeth Bowen and many more.
Product details
Publisher : British Library Publishing; 1st edition (27 Jun. 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0712355200
ISBN-13 : 978-0712355209
Best Sellers Rank: 132,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
331 in Classic Horror
924 in Ghost Horror
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