Your Own Dark Shadow: A Selection of Lost Irish Horror Stories - Paperback

by Jack Fennell (Editor)

An old house turns out to not be as empty as its new owners
supposed. A nobleman barters his soul in exchange for arcane
knowledge. A stranger with a terrible curse looks for an
unsuspecting victim to take her place.
Monsters, killers and unquiet spirits stalk these stories,
drawn from the places where folklore, the Gothic and modern
fiction intertwine - Irish literature's dark and ever-present
shadow.

Edited and introduced by Jack Fennell, this collection
of lesser-known works of classic Irish horror includes stories by
William Carleton, Henry de Vere Stacpoole, Mildred Darby and
more.

Author Biography

Jack Fennell is a writer, editor, translator and researcher whose academic publications include pieces on science fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, monsters, Irish literature, and the legal philosophy of comic books. He is the author of Irish Science Fiction (2014), a contributing translator for The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien (2013), editor of A Brilliant Void (2018) and It Rose Up (2021), and a former Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway.