The Purcell Papers (1975 book)

The Purcell Papers

Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel.
Author	J. Sheridan LeFanu
Cover artist	Frank Utpatel
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Horror, fantasy
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1975
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	ix, 241
ISBN	0-87054-072-6
OCLC	1979891
Dewey Decimal	823/.8
LC Class	PZ3.L518 Pu6 PR4879.L7

The Purcell Papers is a collection of stories by Irish author J. Sheridan LeFanu. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,288 copies. It was the author's second collection published by Arkham House. The book does not include all of the stories in the 1880 book, The Purcell Papers. In addition to the stories by LeFanu, the collection includes a pastiche of LeFanu, "The Churchyard Yew", written by August Derleth and using LeFanu's name as a pseudonym.

Contents

The Purcell Papers contains the following tales:

1. "Introduction", by August Derleth
2. The Purcell Papers
   • I. "The Ghost and the Bone-Setter"
   • II. "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh"
   • III. "The Drunkard's Dream"
   • IV. "The Quare Gander"
3. "The Child That Went With the Fairies"
4. "The White Cat of Drumgunniol"
5. Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
   • I. "The Village Bully"
   • II. "The Spectre Lovers"
6. "Stories of Lough Guir"
7. "A Night in the Bell Inn"
8. "The Dead Sexton"
9. "The Legend of Dunblane"
10. "The Mysterious Lodger"
11. "The Churchyard Yew"

Sources

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 111–112. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 51.
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 135. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 120. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.