Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: In Defence of Fear
- 2 We Dare Not Go A-Hunting: Fairies, Deep Time, and the Irish Weird
- 3 Harbingers of Hunger: Famine, Cannibalism, and Hunger-Demons
- 4 From Lore to Law: Malevolent Magic and Spiritual Warfare
- 5 Ghosts, Narrative, and Noumenal Reality
- 6 Just Sign Here: Faustian Pacts, Demons, and Chaos
- 7 The Undead Generations: Zombies, Vampires, and the Corporeal Undead
- 8 Breeding Breaks Out: Shape-Shifters, Cryptids, and Cunning Animals
- 9 Haunted Spaces and Monstrous Lairs
- 10 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: In Defence of Fear
- 2 We Dare Not Go A-Hunting: Fairies, Deep Time, and the Irish Weird
- 3 Harbingers of Hunger: Famine, Cannibalism, and Hunger-Demons
- 4 From Lore to Law: Malevolent Magic and Spiritual Warfare
- 5 Ghosts, Narrative, and Noumenal Reality
- 6 Just Sign Here: Faustian Pacts, Demons, and Chaos
- 7 The Undead Generations: Zombies, Vampires, and the Corporeal Undead
- 8 Breeding Breaks Out: Shape-Shifters, Cryptids, and Cunning Animals
- 9 Haunted Spaces and Monstrous Lairs
- 10 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Rough BeastsThe Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–</I>2000, pp. 277 - 285Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2019