A new, lyrical collection of famous stories and the less well-known. A collection of characteristically playful yet philosophical Irish ghost stories from authors such as Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost), Sheridan Le Fanu (The Child That Went With The Fairies, Stories Of Lough Guir), Charles Maturin (extracts from Melmoth the Wanderer), Lord Dunsany (‘The Ghost in the Corner’, ‘The Sword of Welleran’) and Fitz-James O'Brien (‘The Diamond Lens’, ‘What Was It?’). 10 b/w illustrations