Chapelizod, a village outside Dublin in the 1760s, is full of gossiping officers of the Royal Irish Artillery, card-players, quarrelling neighbours and a doctor called Toole. When a nameless coffin is buried in the churchyard and the mysterious Mr Mervyn arrives at the inn, an old murder begins to come to light.
Le Fanu’s sprawling village mystery, much admired by James Joyce, with a famous ghostly episode. Download the free EPUB.