Ranging from the 10th to the 20th centuries, these ghostly tales mix the eerie, the terrifying, and the madly comic. Enhanced by the author's 30 illustrations of Irish homes and castles, 22 short stories feature "The Headless Rider of Castle Sheela," "Mrs. O'Moyne and the Fatal Slap," the harpies of "The Ghostly Catch," and more. Reprint of the Creative Age, New York, 1947 edition.
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