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Bloody Irish
Celtic Vampire Stories
Bob Curran

“The bedclothes were gripped and pulled, as though someone was trying to drag me to the floor. A hand – at least, I thought it was a hand – brushed my cheek and searched for my throat…”

‘Vampire!’ the very word conjures up visions of eerie East European mountains; of deep, near-impenetrable forests; of crumbling castles where blood-sucking Balkan nobility dwell and of Slavic peasants huddled in their villages under a sinister Transylvanian moon. And yet, the oldest recorded vampire story comes from Ireland.

This book discusses the ancient Celtic beliefs about death and how these were assimilated by Christianity; the importance which the ancient Celts and early Christians placed on blood; and how the Christian Church transmuted the vampire from an ancestor’s ghost to a malevolent demon. Stories of spooky, mystical and bloody tales are relayed throughout.

Read it if you dare – but leave all the lights on!