The Shadow Player

by Rose Doyle

(Discover the identity of the disembodied voice singing haunting tunes in the attic of a long abandoned house . . . Read about Lady Margaret de Deauville who was murdered in 1814 and discover the curse of her magic ring . . . Who is the ghoulish knight who clambers out of his tomb unleashing disease and darkness upon the world? Witness a family driven quietly insane by an evil presence in their new house . . . What became of the hideous voodoo doll which disappeared after Niamh flung it from her bedroom window? An atmospheric and suspense-filled collection of original ghost stories by fifteen of Ireland s most popular Rose Doyle, Michael Scott, Jane Mitchell, Michael Mullen, Morgan Llywelyn, Gretta Mulrooney, Michael Carroll, Carolyn Swift, Mary Regan, Gordon Snell, Mary Beckett, Eileen Dunlop, Maeve Friel, Gaby Ross and Cormac MacRaois. Each tale draws you into a web at times menacing, at times refreshingly funny.)

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Rose Doyle is a writer and journalist. Her novels include Fate and Tomorrow (set in the Congo in 1902) and Shadows Will Fall , both international bestsellers. Trade Names, the book of her long-running series in The Irish Times, was published by New Island in 2004. In 2005 she contributed to New Island's successful Open Door series with The Story of Joe Brown. Heroes of Jadotville: The Soldiers' Story was published in September 2006. Comdt Patrick Quinlan, who led the Irish UN troops at Jadotville, was her uncle.

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