Great Irish Tales of Horror

Horror is in the mind and of the darkness. Those who seek to indulge in nightmare will find more than enough here to set their pulses racing - satanic figures grope in the shadows, people long dead return to haunt the scenes of their lifetime, victims fly shrieking from a doom they cannot escape. Drawn from 200 years of short story writing, "Great Irish Tales of Horror" includes twenty-four of the most powerful examples of horror ever conceived. Many of them are all the more terrifying because the looming dread is understated or unseen: food for the imagination.

Writers include Bram Stoker, Sax Rohmer, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - through George Bernard Shaw, to William Trevor, Peter Tremayne, Jack Higgins, Neil Jordan.