1954 Ireland, and transubstantiation is no longer the province of the church. Or so it seems, for up in the Wicklow Hills, somebody has turned a tea-cosy into a hen. The archbishop sends his most trusted servant, the Jesuit Novitiate Ignatius Flood, to investigate. Arriving at the farm where the miracle took place, Flood is so smitten by the young woman living there, he wonders if she was conjured into existence as a trap for the unwary - if she might be a simulacrum too.

An impoverished Anglo-Irish lady negotiates with the Sidhe, an 18th century playwright is ensnared by a succubus, a visitor to famine-stricken Ireland learns all is not what it seems, while a ventriloquist's dummy lives in terror of its owner and a young man discovers that - sometimes - going over the gate means never coming back. Just some of the stories in this volume, all set in Ireland, all dealing with the strange and the uncanny.

Summoned by a mysterious harp, Penny, Melvin, Donald and Beverly find themselves back in Tir-na-Nog, only now it's ruled by the practical, unimaginative Puritanians and all the country's magical creatures are in hiding. Saint Patrick is leading the fight against the occupiers, and a boy called Algernon (once the future steward of Tir-na-Nog) has joined him. Only neither Saint Patrick nor Algernon can do anything without their help.A sequel to 'The Witch, the Saint & the Shoemaker'....

As a small boy growing up in Dublin in the Seventies, the one bright spot in Odran's otherwise dreary existence is the local library. Until the day he visits the house of his recently deceased grandmother and his life changes forever. He's still Odran Feeney, the class bookworm, but now he's also Nardo, the ruthless, despotic Emperor of the Crimson Planet…..A book about the good and bad in all of us and the delicate equilibrium between the two.

Reilly claims the crack is a portal to the promised land. The others aren't so sure.....

Penny finds the magic door to Tir-na-nog while staying in her uncle's big old house - a wild, beautiful country where it never stops raining, thanks to the spell cast over it by some wicked witch. Then she and the others learn about the prophesy: how four children are supposed to bring about the witch's downfall. Who knows? Maybe (with Saint Patrick's help) they might do just that…..

As a young man, Conaire was best friends with the Sons of Don Dessa. Then he became High-King of Ireland. Where do his loyalties lie? With the kingship? Or his erstwhile - but lawless - companions? A short story about difficult choices and the inscrutable workings of fate.

Fiachra and Alastair were never exactly friends. Fiachra does feel sorry for Alistair, though. Enough to visit him. Only how do you help a man who says he's being haunted by a demonic monkey?

Short story. Murdering him wasn't stupid. Going back to check I hadn't messed up - that was stupid. The Wicklow Mountains can be pretty dangerous at dusk, and not just because of the terrain....

Who is the Meat in the basement? That's the question on police SWAT Lt. Boulder Johnson's mind. The basement is in his brother-in-law Harley Earle's house and the question is important; Harley's wife Becca, Boulder's sister, was never found after the uprising that saw the dead awaken. They were known as Meats when they were preying on the living. Now that they're supposedly gone, could it really be a Meat in the basement? And if so, who? And if it's who Boulder is afraid it is, for the lov...

Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a derelict ship, Whyborne is reluctant to get involved. Until, that is, a brutal murderer strikes, leaving Whyborne and his lover Griffin no choice but to take the case.The investigation leads them deep into a conspiracy of blackmail, murder, and darkest sorcery. But w...

All The Lonely People is the curtain-raiser to a successful nine-book series featuring Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin. Devlin finds himself number one suspect in a murder case that is far too close to home. The victim is his estranged wife, Liz, who is found murdered in a dingy alleyway. Determined to find her killer and prove his innocence, Harry begins a journey that takes him into the city's underworld and shatters forever his illusions about the woman he loved. Now beautifully presen...