The Purcell Papers (1975 book)

Infobox Book
name = The Purcell Papers
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for "The Purcell Papers"
author = J. Sheridan LeFanu
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cover_artist = Frank Utpatel
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Horror, Fantasy short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1975
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = ix, 241 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87054-072-6
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"The Purcell Papers" is a collection of stories by author J. Sheridan LeFanu. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,288 copies. It was the author's second collection published by Arkham House. The book does not include all of the stories in the 1880 book, The Purcell Papers. In addition to the stories by LeFanu, the collection includes a pastiche of LeFanu, "The Churchyard Yew", written by August Derleth and using LeFanu's name as a pseudonym.

Contents

"The Purcell Papers" contains the following tales:

# "Introduction", by August Derleth
# The Purcell Papers
#* I. "The Ghost and the Bone-Setter"
#* II. "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh"
#* III. "The Drunkard's Dream"
#* IV. "The Quare Gander"
# "The Child That Went With the Fairies"
# "The White Cat of Drumgunniol"
# Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
#* I. "The Village Bully"
#* II. "The Spectre Lovers"
# "Stories of Lough Guir"
# "A Night in the Bell Inn"
# "The Dead Sexton"
# "The Legend of Dunblane"
# "The Mysterious Lodger"
# "The Churchyard Yew"

References

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