Muckross Abbey and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802157485)

"I binge-read this book, savoring the gothic creepiness at the heart of each tale. Packed with compelling, nuanced lives and the deaths that haunt them, each story is a s饌nce--an invitation for unsettled spirits to let their presence be known, 'desperate for someone to supply the narrative.' Murray supplies it with great style and an uncanny knowingness, leaving room for our imagination to fill in the suggestive spaces with our own dark dread."--Mona Awad, author of All's WellSabina Murray has long been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing readers to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores of Cape Cod in ten strange tales that are layered, meta, and unforgettable. From a twisted recasting of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, to an actor who dies for his art only to haunt his mother's house, to the titular "Muckross Abbey," an Irish chieftain burial site cursed by the specter of a flesh-eating groom--in this collection Murray gives us painters, writers, historians, and nuns all confronting the otherworldly in fantastically creepy ways. With notes of Wharton and James, Stoker and Shelley, now drawn into the present, these macabre stories are sure to captivate and chill.

Author: Sabina Murray
ISBN-10: 0802157483
ISBN-13: 9780802157485
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2023
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 100
Publishers Weekly 01/02/2023
Booklist 01/01/2023 pg. 46
Shelf Awareness 03/24/2023