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Muckross Abbey and Other Stories

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From the PEN/Faulkner award winning pioneer of "ironic gothic" comes a wry and spooky set of ghost stories, replete with original illustrations.

Since her acclaimed novel A Carnivore's Inquiry, Sabina Murray has been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing readers to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores of Cape Cod in ten strange tales that are layered, meta, and unforgettable.

A twisted recasting of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, an actor who dies for his art only to haunt his mother's house, the titular "Muckross Abbey," an Irish chieftain burial site cursed by the specter of a flesh eating groom—in this collection Murray gives us painters, writers, historians, and nuns all confronting the otherworldly in fantastically creepy ways. With notes of Wharton and James, Stoker and Shelley, now drawn into the present, these macabre stories are sure to captivate and chill.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Release: March 21, 2023

ISBN 13: 9780802157485

Muckross Abbey and Other Stories

0/5 ( ratings)

From the PEN/Faulkner award winning pioneer of "ironic gothic" comes a wry and spooky set of ghost stories, replete with original illustrations.

Since her acclaimed novel A Carnivore's Inquiry, Sabina Murray has been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing readers to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores of Cape Cod in ten strange tales that are layered, meta, and unforgettable.

A twisted recasting of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, an actor who dies for his art only to haunt his mother's house, the titular "Muckross Abbey," an Irish chieftain burial site cursed by the specter of a flesh eating groom—in this collection Murray gives us painters, writers, historians, and nuns all confronting the otherworldly in fantastically creepy ways. With notes of Wharton and James, Stoker and Shelley, now drawn into the present, these macabre stories are sure to captivate and chill.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Release: March 21, 2023

ISBN 13: 9780802157485

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