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The Blood-Drawing Ghost

Jeremiah Curtin

First published 1994
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story


According to "A Note About the Story" in Kate Culhane: A Ghost Story , Curtin transcribed this and other Irish folktales which were published in the "New York Sun" Sunday Supplement in 1892-1893; this story also was published in his Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World: Irish Folktales from Southwest Munster.

Published in Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World, pp. 180-91 in the 1895 first editions (viewed at HathiTrust).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1994 Cover Famous Irish Ghost Stories Sterling Publishing Anthology 49
September 1997 Cover The Book of Irish Weirdness Sterling Publishing Anthology 297
2005 Cover Irish Ghost Stories Wordsworth Editions Anthology 538
May 2011 Cover Irish Ghost Stories Wordsworth Editions Anthology
September 2020 Cover Monstrous Tales: Stories of Strange Creatures and Fearsome Beasts from Around the World Chronicle Books Anthology 19