In Ireland, the supernatural is usually never far away. It lies sleeping beneath a seemingly peaceful and beautiful landscape, just beyond our vision but ready to emerge when we least expect it. This book draws you into this mysterious otherworld, a world of fairies, ghosts, sheehogues and other horrors. A weaver strikes a bargain with the fairies with tragic consequences. A young girl unwittingly invites a poltergeist into her family home, causing mayhem. A group of fishermen, lost at sea in a thick fog, discover there is someone – or something – else on their boat. A ghostly maid wanders the corridors of a stately home, doomed for eternity for her crime. A woman agrees to a marriage between her daughter and a mysterious stranger – only to discover that the man had died many years before. These folk tales have been collected by Bob Curran and are retold in compelling detail. Let these stories send a shiver up your spine!

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