The Green Book 27

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Order The Green Book 27 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. br...@swanriverpress.ie Bealtaine 2026 Paperback 108 pages ISSN: 2009-6089 Our Forthcoming Title The Green Book 27 edited by Brian J. Showers   Available to order here. With this issue, I am pleased to present another clutch of short fictions by Irish writers that do not seem to fit well into any other Swan River Press project. Thankfully, we have The Green Book, which I hope continues to be a fascinating contextual repository for stray writings of interest to readers of Irish gothic, supernatural, and fantastic literature. The centrepiece of this issue is three stories by Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881), whose supernatural tales do not number enough in quantity to warrant a standalone volume of her own in our Strange Stories by Irish Women series. And yet, her stray contributions to genre literature remain of note. Although far from a household name now, Hall was quite well known and celebrated in her time. A review of Stories of the Irish Peasantry that appeared in the Dublin University Magazine (October 1839) writes favourably of not only Hall’s book, but also highlights an appreciation for her importance in Irish literature . . . Read more... Contents “Editor’s Note” Brian J. Showers “The Old Stain on the Floor” Rosa Mulholland “The Face” Lennox Robinson “The Redderbrae” Anna Maria Hall “The Drowned Fisherman” Anna Maria Hall “The Witch Hare” Anna Maria Hall “Manon and Her Spirit-Lover” Thomas Caulfield Irwin “The Cambleford Hand of Death” Mildred Darby “On the Death Mask of J. Sheridan Le Fanu” Donald Sidney-Fryer “Notes on Contributors” Order The Green Book 27 Grimshaw Reviewed As a young bookworm, I read a lot of Conrad, a goodly chunk of Kipling, and a fair helping of Stevenson. Grimshaw's work is somewhat reminiscent of all three. There's a laconic, somewhat cynical view of human nature, lots of local colour, and plots that are sometimes, well, strange. Grimshaw was a remarkable woman, one of those Victorian ladies who broke away from convention and demonstrated great intelligence and initiative. Overall, this book is entertaining not just in terms of storytelling but also for the insights it offers into a colonial age that is by no means over and done with.    Read more . . .  Dublin Rare Book Fair We’ll be exhibiting at the new Dublin Rare Book Fair this June at Flux Studios. There will be a lot of antiquarian, vintage, and modern firsts available, and we’ll bring our standard assortment of titles, including some rarities that can only be bought in person. Hope to see you there! Friday, 12 June – Saturday, 13 June 2026 Flux Studios, Chatham Row Read more . . .  Beasts with Five Fingers New British Library volume edited by Brian J. Showers . . .  In 1919, W. F. Harvey published ‘The Beast with Five Fingers’, his quintessential tale of the disembodied hand with a murderous mind of its own, and its position as one of weird fiction’s true classics was cemented by the 1946 film adaptation. Seeking to trace the origins of the haunted hand story back into the nineteenth century, and to showcase its influence on writers of weird fiction from the 1920s to the modern day, horror expert Brian J. Showers presents a new collection of classics from the well-thumbed oeuvres of Sheridan Le Fanu and Guy de Maupassant through to miniature masterpieces from the hands of Jean Ray, Mark Valentine and many more.    Buy a copy . . .  Instagram | Threads | Bluesky | Facebook Copyright © 2026 Swan River Press. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: br...@swanriverpress.ie  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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