Table of Contents
Introduction 1
A Modest Proposal (1729) Jonathan Swift 27
The Disabled Soldier (1762) Oliver Goldsmith 40
The False Key (1796) Maria Edgeworth 48
The Man in the Bell (1821) William Maginn 73
Master and Man (1825) Thomas Crofton Croker 82
Leixlip Castle (1825) Charles Maturin 90
The Brown Man (1827) Gerald Griffin 107
The Rival Dreamers (1838) John Banim 114
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter (1839) Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 134
Frank Martin and the Fairies (1845) William Carleton 164
The Dark Lady (1847) Anna Maria Hall 171
What Was It? A Mystery (1859) Fitz-James O'Brien 187
Traces of Crime (1865) Mary Helena Fortune, alias W.W. ('Waif Wander') 203
The Recovered Bride (1866) Patrick Kennedy 218
The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly (1866) Rosa Mulholland 222
The Open Door (1882) Charlotte Riddell 238
The Witching Hour (1884) Margaret Wolfe Hungerford 271
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: A Study of Duty (1887) Oscar Wilde 289
The Holy Well and the Murderer (1887) Jane, Lady Wilde ('Speranza') 324
The Man Who Never Knew Fear (1892) Douglas Hyde 328
The Red Bungalow (1893) B.M. Croker 336
The Man and His Boots (1894) W.B. Yeats 353
The First Wife (1895) Katharine Tynan 357
Murder by Proxy (1897) M. McDonnell Bodkin 365
A Dream of Angus Oge (1897) George Russell (Æ) 390
The Reconciliation (1900) Lafcadio Hearn 398
The Father Confessor (1900) Dora Sigerson Shorter 405
Madame Sara (1902) L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace 414
The Wee Grey Woman (1903) Ethna Carbery 444
Julia Cahill's Curse (1903) George Moore 453
For Company (1905) Jane Barlow 462
A Most Wretched Ghost (1906) Augusta, Lady Gregory 470
Two Gallants (1914) James Joyce 476
Dracula's Guest (1914) Bram Stoker 489
Mr Jones Meets A Duchess (1915) Dorothea Conyers 504
A Spirit Elopement (1915) Richard Dehan/Clotilde Graves 522
The Keening Woman (1916) Patrick Pearse 534
Courage (1918) Forrest Reid 552
The Prisoner (1924) Dorothy Macardle 564
Irish Pride (1926) Liam O'Flaherty 573
The Eyes of the Dead (1927) Daniel Corkery 590
The Two Bottles of Relish (1932) Lord Dunsany 603
The Cave (1932) Beatrice Grimshaw 621
Rats (1934) Rearden Conner 640
The Glass Panel (1935) Eimar O'Duffy 652
The Parcel (1936) Freeman Wills Crofts 667
The Ride (1936) Mary Frances McHugh 701
The Demon Lover (1941) Elizabeth Bowen 713
Cloonaturk (1947) Mervyn Wall 724
The Snow Line (1949) Nicholas Blake (Cecil Day-Lewis) 739
The Teddy Bear Mystery (1952) Cathal Ó Sándair 759
Fly Away Tiger, Fly Away Thumb (1953) Brian Moore 773
The Yellow Beret (i960) Mary Lavin 784
In at the Birth (1964) William Trevor 805
Forms of Things Unknown (1966) C.S. Lewis 821
Light of Other Days (1966) Bob Shaw 834
The Theft (1977) Jennifer Johnston 846
The Honest Blackmailer (1982) Patricia Moyes 859
Bella and the Marriage Guidance Counsellor (1989) Maeve Binchy 869
Black Stuff (2006) Ken Bruen 883
Followers (2007) Stuart Neville 896
On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier (2008) John Connolly 904
Galapagos (2009) Caitlin R. Kiernan 912
Left For Dead (2013) Jane Casey 938
The Sacrifice (2013) Brian McGilloway 1012
Cruel and Unusual (2016) Liz Nugent 1026
The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams (2019) Maura McHugh 1034
Acknowledgements 1047
Copyrights 1050
Bibliography 1052
Index 1063
