“The city, however, does not tell its past,
but contains it like the lines of a hand.” – Italo Calvino
Drawing on supernatural literature, historical incident, and dubious folklore, Brian J. Showers infests the south Dublin neighbourhood of Rathmines with an authentic population of ghosts and other less welcome entities. Each story brims with local atmosphere and darkened paths still traversed today by unsuspecting residents. The result is a realistic and shadow-filled portrait of a modern locale, and where the spirit of place is not always a hospitable one.
This new edition of The Bleeding Horse collects Showers’s other Rathmines tales, placing them for the first time alongside their neighbours; including “Old Albert”, a strange puzzle box of a novella, which, as John Connolly observes in his foreword, is “a hauntological piece, indebted to the narrative structures of J. Sheridan Le Fanu”. Cover art by Brian Coldrick.
This new edition has two variant signing sheets, which are signed by Showers, Connolly, Rockhill, and Coldrick. They will be randomly allocated.
Orders can be inscribed on request.
- Winner of the Children of the Night Award
- Features a new foreword by John Connolly
- Includes a new afterword by the author
Contents
“Foreword” – John Connolly
The Bleeding Horse
“Introduction” – Jim Rockhill
“A Note to the Reader”
“The Road to Rathmines”
“The Bleeding Horse”
“Oil on Canvas”
“Favourite No. 7 Omnibus”
“Rathmines Road Lower”
“Meones’ Beast”
“Quis Separabit”
“Lavender and White Clover”
“Father Corrigan’s Diary”
“Epilogue”
“Notes”
“Selected Reading”
Old Albert
“A Note to the Reader” – Jim Rockhill
“Prologue”
“Ellis Grimwood of Larkhill”
“This Terrible, This Unnatural Crime”
“An Exhaltation of Skylarks”
“Thin and Brittle Bones”
“Come Like Shadows, So Depart”
“Notes”
“Selected Reading”
Other Avenues
“Some Houses”
“A Curious Correspondence”
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