This book is a compilation of different ghost and supernatural phenomena retold to the authors of this book and collected by them in different parts of Ireland. Yet the authors of this book remain objective, so it doesn't have any additional literary tricks employed to make the read feel like fiction. Once the British Isles characterize by a huge number of ghost stories and ghost lore is one of local peculiarities, the accounts in the book are perceived and presented like real. For example, there is even a story about a legal case regarding a haunted house, where the court ruled that the damages of the house should be perceived as such that are caused by a ghost. A truly interesting read for anyone who fancies supernatural and blood-chilling stories.

St John Drelincourt Seymour (1880- 1950) was an Irish priest, ho served as Archdeacon of Cashel and Emly. After graduating from the Trinity College in Dublin, he took his ordination in 1904. He was appointed the incumbent at Toem, Ireland, and after took the position of the Archdeacon.