Purcell Papers

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781776586561
• Edition: 0

The Purcell Papers is a comprehensive collection of Sheridan Le Fanu's early short stories, and they reflect his interest in Irish folklore, as well as his burgeoning fascination with the supernatural. Some of the tales have a charming, humorous tone, while others are characterized by the spine-chilling twists and turns that would later launch Le Fanu to the top of the gothic horror genre.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• VOLUME I
• The Ghost and the Bone Setter
• The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh
• The Last Heir of Castle Connor
• The Drunkard's Dream
• VOLUME II
• Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
• The Bridal of Carrigvarah
• Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
• Scraps of Hibernian Ballads
• VOLUME III
• Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow
• A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family
• An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain
• 'The Quare Gander'
• Billy Malowney's Taste of Love and Glory
• Endnotes