Old Albert - An Epilogue

Cover image by Jason Zerrillo
Afterword by Adam Golaski

"If dear Old Albert finds you, / Still your tongue, be still your tongue." — School Rhyme

The place is Larkhill House, and during its century and a half of existence it has hosted an array of peculiar tenants: the reclusive though brilliant ornithologist Ellis Grimwood; a murderous wine merchant and his young wife; and the Sacred Order of the Mysteries of Thoth, who re-christened Larkhill the “New Temple of Abtiti” and practised there their outlandish and mystical rites. After vacating Larkhill, these individuals—all of them—left something of themselves behind . . . Set in the same haunted neighbourhood as the stories in the award-winning collection The Bleeding Horse, Old Albert continues with the idea that not all is well in the leafy Victorian suburb of Rathmines, Dublin.

Contents

• A Note to the Reader by Jim Rockhill
• I. Prologue
• II. Ellis Grimwood of Larkhill
• III. This Terrible, This Unnatural Crime
• IV. An Exaltation of Skylarks
• V. Thin and Brittle Bones
• VI. Come Like Shadows, So Depart
• An Afterword by Adam Golaski
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements

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