A01=Michael Scott
Author_Michael Scott
Category=FK
Category=FYB
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Product details
- ISBN 9780751501544
- Weight: 196g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 1994
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What is it about Ireland's past that so haunts the imagination? More than one answer can be found in Michael Scott's powerful new collection of twenty-nine tales.
To start with, in a newly Christianised Ireland, monks do battle with a devilish monster that has killed a river. All the water in this collection, from rivers to lakes, conceal dangers that men and women would best avoid. Ready to tempt Ireland's new conquerors - humankind - supernatural forces hide beneath waves, in bogs, in the very land, waiting.
With his usual inventiveness, Michael Scott juxtaposes the old and the new, the ancient and modern, showing that in everyday situations, the curses of Ireland's mythic past lie imp-like, threatening destruction.
An authority on mythology and folklore, Michael Scott is one of Ireland's most successful authors. Writing in genres of fantasy, science-fiction, horror, and folklore, he was hailed by the Irish Times as 'The King of Fantasy in These Isles'. He lives and writes in Dublin.
