The Purcell Papers

he Purcell Papers are a collection of thirteen Gothic, supernatural, historical and humorous short stories. Included are: The Ghost and the Bone-Setter; The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh; The Last Heir of Castle Connor; The Drunkard's Dream; Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess; The Bridal of Carrigvarah; Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter; Scraps of Hibernian Ballads; Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow; A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain; The Quare Gander; and, Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory.