Ghosts of County Cork

Ghosts of County Cork gathers forty stories once told beside the hearths of the county’s farms, villages, and towns - tales of haunted houses, storm-beaten islands, and the narrow ground where the living and the dead meet, memories of fear passed from one generation to the next.But this is more than a collection of ghost stories. It is a portrait of a county where landscape and memory are inseparable, and where ghosts are rarely simple figures of terror. More often they are signs of unfinished business: grief that outlived a mourner, an unpaid debt, an unrighted wrong.Atmospheric and rooted in the voices of ordinary people, Ghosts of County Cork preserves a haunting inheritance from Ireland’s southernmost county - one that still waits at the bend of a road, or in a light across the water.