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	In the spirit of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod", Brian J. Showers' The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories infests his own Dublin neighbourhood with an authentic population of ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. Showers has filled each story with fascinating regional history, local atmosphere, and architectural details that are clearly visible today. While this gives the stories a factual flavour, the supernatural elements are entirely fictional. The result is a realistic and shadow-filled portrait of a modern neighbourhood, written in the traditional style of the classic literary ghost story. The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories, published by Mercier Press, will be available from March 2008. More...
	"Here is a small treat from The Swan River Press in Dublin, Ireland: an old-fashioned ghost story in a hand-sewn binding with soft covers and its own ribbon marker." Since 2003, The Swan River Press has published an annual holiday ghost tale. Each palm-sized, illustrated chapbook is guaranteed to make your bones shiver and your skin crawl. The first chapbook, The Old Tailor & The Gaunt Man was printed in 2003, The Snow Came Softly Down in 2004, Tigh an Bhreithimh in 2005, and No. 70 Merrion Square in two parts in 2006. Quis Separabit will be published in the autumn of 2007. More...
	Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin is a new guidebook from Nonsuch Publishing Ireland that reconstructs the lives of Charles Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker as walking tours with the help of maps, photographs and excerpts from their works. Ideal for tourists who have come to explore Ireland's 1200 year old capital, native Dubliners who want to learn more about their city's spectral past, and those who just want a mind's eye tour of haunted Dublin. Written by Brian J. Showers, Illustrated by Duane Spurlock, Foreword by Pat Liddy and Cover Art by Meggan Kehrli. More...
	The Bram Stoker Society was founded in 1980 by scholar Leslie Shepard. His aims were to encourage serious appreciation of Bram Stoker and his writings, and to promote official recognition of Stoker as an Irish writer. The Bram Stoker Society Journal featured articles, interviews, reviews, and reprints of rare articles on the subjects of Bram Stoker, the Irish Gothic, and beyond. A CD-ROM of the The Bram Stoker Society Journal is currently available from this website. The CD-ROM is supplemented with two indices, and a new introduction on the history of the Society. More...