Lascivious lashings torn by trial from hell . . . or are they?
A brutalised maidservant flung to a leaky skiff who delivers death to the wicked and hope to the good; poetry and obsession on a Lough Erne islet haunted by birds; genteel depravity in Belfast of 1917; one man’s premonitory dream that will ruin a winsome girl; infanticide urged by ancestral curse; abuse of innocence foiled by vengeance from beyond; spousal hatred to doom forlorn love.
Soul Predators comprises seven stories by an established inventor of spectral dread; subversive and numinous by turns, these tales roister between grimness and exaltation. Four have been revised from appearances in limited editions, three are unpublished.
The contents are as follows:
Oileán na nÉan
Dream of a Dead Monkey
Erminia
A Flutter of Lorn Love
The Teddy Who Said His Prayers
One False Step
The Final Flight of Fidelia
