Download or read book The Purcell Papers written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Arkham House Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montague Rhodes James wrote of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu that he "stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories." This second Arkham House collection, following GREEN TEA and OTHER GHOST STORIES, virtually completes the reprinting of all but Le Fanu's novel-length tales of the supernatural. The book includes an introduction by August Derleth, and these stories: "The Purcell Papers, " "The Child That Went with the Fairies, " "The White Cat of Drumgunniol, " "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod, " "Stories of Lough Guir, " "A Night in the Bell Inn, " "The Dead Sexton, " "The Legend of Dunblane, " and "The Mysterious Lodger."