Sabina 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 10 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 --- 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.