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Item #122

The Banshee, The Irish Death Messenger, Patricia Lysaght, 1986, biblio, index, 433 pp SORRY No longer available. Please ask us to find you a nice used copy.

An updated version of the book first published in 1986. Based on 140 responses to a Banshee questionnaire, it discusses the various guises in which the Death Messenger appears and the minutest details of the Banshee’s behavior. The anecdotes from people who have experienced the Banshee are short and not very detailed. Over half of the book is appendices, references, and notes. Exhaustive coverage of the legend and its current manifestations and perhaps of greatest interest to folklorists at the Masters or Ph.D. level. Overkill for the rest of us.

Item #117

Famous Irish Ghost Stories, Mairtin O'Griofa, ed. 1994, index, line art, 194 pp. Now out of print. Ask us to find you a nice used copy.

Traditional tales and fiction from some of Ireland's most chilling authors. Contents: Introduction; Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts, Traditional; John Reardon and the Sister Ghosts, Traditional; The Ghosts and the Game of Football, Patrick Kennedy; The Brown Man, Gerald Griffin; The Specter Lovers, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; The Blood-Drawing Ghost, Jeremiah Curtin; The Judge's House, Bram Stoker; The Dead Smile, Francis Marion Crawford; The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde.

Item #116

A Ghost Watcher’s Guide to Ireland, John Dunne, 127 pp, biblio, wonderful atmospheric photos by Simon Marsden! SORRY No longer available. Please ask us to find you a nice used copy.

Atmospheric photos of mummies and standing stones, ruined manors, castles, churches, and cemeteries. "Glencairn’s Girl in White" appeared to a witness with a wound in her chest. In the attic was found a box with her heart and a note asking that it be buried at Glencairn. A Thing with a horse’s body and a leering, demonic face. The ghost of Helena Blunden, a linen factory worker with operatic aspirations. A lovely book with 47 short ghost stories and Marsden's CREEPY photos! NOTE: The stories in this book are identical with the stories in Irish Ghosts (item #118). The only differences are the introductions, the illustrations and the binding.

Item #118

IRISH GHOSTS (formerly titled Haunted Ireland, Her Romantic and Mysterious Ghosts), John J. Dunne, 1977, photos, biblio, 112 pp, $16.95

A collection of relatively unfamiliar haunts enhanced by historic photos from the Lawrence O'Connor Collection. The ghostly Lady Grace of Boley, who affects the "Alexandria limp", and told a startled guest, "You are not to sleep here tonight."

The mad ghost of Jonathan Swift at the mental hospital he founded in James Street. A ghostly butcher seen in his house in North Dublin, years after he'd cut his throat there in 1863. The ghost of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, founder of one of the first free public libraries in Europe, who haunts the Marsh Library, sadly searching for a letter from his eloping niece. NOTE: The stories in this book are identical to the stories in Ghost Watcher's Guide to Ireland (Item #116). The only differences are the introductions, the illustrations and the binding.

Item #119

Irish Ghost Stories, Patrick Byrne, 1993, index, 96 pp. $10.95

Short anecdotes from around Ireland. "The Hungry Grass" which inflicts the dying pangs of people who lay down there to starve. The Widow Gammon whose very touch burns the living, the Gormanston Foxes, who gather when the head of the family is dying, Lady Gregory, who haunts Dublin's Abbey Theatre.

Item #120

More Irish Ghost Stories (also titled The Second Book of Irish Ghost Stories), Patrick Byrne, 1971, 88 pp. This book is no longer available. Please ask us to find you a nice used copy.

More tales of castles and country homes, battles eternally refought, and strange creatures emerging from lonely lakes. Dozens of stories from every corner of Ireland including the ghostly Battle of Horetown, refought as a frightened old woman and her grandson drove their cart through it. The Dublin house where terrified ghosts raced up the stairs to escape a massacre. The ghostly presence who stood behind a writer and encouraged him to leave a room before it was bombed.

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