In store now! It Rose Up : A Selection of Lost Irish Fantasy Stories
With strange combinations of occultism, electricity, magic and playfully Biblical archetypes, the fifteen darkly funny stories in this book illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked.
It Rose Up : A Selection of Lost Irish Fantasy Stories Edited by Jack Fennell
A mystical battle between foreign gods and local saints is unleashed as idols are mistaken for garden ornaments; an ambiguous wizard spies on his neighbors from an invisible tower; a cursed dueling pistol influences its owners to commit suicide.
Edited and introduced by Jack Fennell, this collection of lesser known works of classic Irish fantasy includes stories by Dora Sigerson Shorter, Charlotte McManus, the prolific and mysterious EW, and George Egerton
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