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Cover artist Frank Utpatel Publication date 1975 Pages ix, 241 pp Originally published 1975 Publisher Arkham House OCLC 1979891 | 3.5/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 0-87054-072-6 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fiction, Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Horror Similar Sheridan Le Fanu books, Short Stories | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Purcell Papers is a collection of stories by author J. Sheridan LeFanu. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,288 copies. It was the author's second collection published by Arkham House. The book does not include all of the stories in the 1880 book, The Purcell Papers. In addition to the stories by LeFanu, the collection includes a pastiche of LeFanu, "The Churchyard Yew", written by August Derleth and using LeFanu's name as a pseudonym.
Contents
The Purcell Papers contains the following tales:
- "Introduction", by August Derleth
- The Purcell Papers
- I. "The Ghost and the Bone-Setter"
- II. "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh"
- III. "The Drunkard's Dream"
- IV. "The Quare Gander"
- "The Child That Went With the Fairies"
- "The White Cat of Drumgunniol"
- Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
- I. "The Village Bully"
- II. "The Spectre Lovers"
- "Stories of Lough Guir"
- "A Night in the Bell Inn"
- "The Dead Sexton"
- "The Legend of Dunblane"
- "The Mysterious Lodger"
- "The Churchyard Yew"
References
The Purcell Papers (1975 book) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA