Edited by Gerard Brennan & Mike Stone

Irish Crime. Irish Myths.

Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.

Watch the children of Conchobar return to their mischievous ways, meet ancient Celtic royalty, and follow druids and banshees as they are set loose in the new Irish underbelly, murder and mayhem on their minds.

Featuring top shelf tales by Ken Bruen, Maxim Jakubowski, Stuart Neville, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Sam Millar, John Grant, Garry Kilworth, T.A. Moore and many more.

PUBLICATION DATE: 1st June 2010

PLEASE NOTE:The pre-orders are for the UK ONLY

UK Hardback: £12.99 + shipping (please note this is to be a limited print run)

UK Paperback: £8.99 + shipping

Requiems for the Departed Stories:

Queen of the Hill - Stuart Neville
Hound of Culann - Tony Black
Hats off to Mary - Garry Kilworth
Sliabh Ban - Arlene Hunt
Red Hand of Ulster - Sam Millar
She Wails Through the Fair - Ken Bruen
A Price to Pay - Maxim Jakubowski
Red Milk - T. A. Moore
Bog Man - John McAllister
The Sea is Not Full - Una McCormack
The Druid’s Dance - Tony Bailie
Children of Gear - Neville Thompson
Diarmid and Grainne - Adrian McKinty
The Fortunate Isles - Dave Hutchinson
First to Score - Garbhan Downey
Fisherman’s Blues - Brian McGilloway
The Life Business - John Grant

And the positive reviews just keep on coming for that little treasure of mine, Dead Souls!

“This is a wonderful assortment of chilling tales culled from the minds of a fabulous array of authors. The reader takes a journey, twenty-five in fact, into a world of shadows and fear…”

Bitten by Books full review

Morrígan Books, an independent global publisher, is now open for author-provided submissions of completed, full length urban fantasy and YA novels. Morrígan Books is looking to publish a minimum of three novels a year. Authors need not be represented by an agent to submit.

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It is already the second best-selling book at Morrigan Books, even before its release, and has received some well-deserved attention at the Newry Democrat.

Pre-orders will be available soon, so keep your eye on news from us!

Grants Pass won the award for best edited publication at the Australian Horror Writers very own awards, the Australian Shadows!

A well deserved award for an excellent anthology and thanks go to Jennifer Brozek and Amanda Pillar for making it well worthy of a Morrigan Books release.

Grants Pass will be making its way to Australia very soon and so keep an eye out for more news on that soon.

Have you been waiting for e-versions of Morrigan Books’ published works?

They are now available at DriveThruHorror:
 
Voices - Edited by Mark S. Deniz & Amanda Pillar

How to Make Monsters - By Gary McMahon

The Even - By T.A. Moore

Grants Pass - Edited by Jennifer Brozek & Amanda Pillar

Dead Souls - Edited by Mark S. Deniz

The Phantom Queen Awakes - Edited by Mark S. Deniz & Amanda Pillar

And after a very worthy review of Part Two, we move to Part Three, this time focusing on the horror within us, the darkness we carry:

‘The Beast Within submerges the readers in this fear and in five distinct exposés stays true to the theme of the anthology, while casting limelight on the internal bestiary humans hide inside their ribcages, both metaphorically and literally.

Full review below:

Temple Library Reviews: Dead Souls Part Three: The Beast Within

And yet another fantastic cover from Reece Notley:

Edited by Gerard Brennan & Mike Stone

Requiems for the Departed
Irish Crime, Irish Myths.

It has been said before, that every story has already been told.

Maybe so. But if you’ve got the gift of the gab, you can tell the same tale as often as you like and still give it a life of its own every time.

Requiems for the Departed flaunts that gift seventeen times over with top shelf stories from Ken Bruen, Maxim Jakubowski, Stuart Neville, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Sam Millar, John Grant, Garry Kilworth, and many more.

The children of Conchobar are back to their old mischievous ways, ancient Celtic royalty, druids and banshees are set loose in the new Irish underbelly with murder and mayhem on their minds.

Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.

PUBLICATION DATE: 1st June 2010

Requiems for the Departed
Stories:

Queen of the Hill - Stuart Neville
Hound of Culann - Tony Black
Hats off to Mary - Garry Kilworth
Sliabh Ban - Arlene Hunt
Red Hand of Ulster - Sam Millar
She Wails Through the Fair - Ken Bruen
A Price to Pay - Maxim Jakubowski
Red Milk - T. A. Moore
Bog Man - John McAllister
The Sea is Not Full - Una McCormack
The Druid’s Dance - Tony Bailie
Children of Gear - Neville Thompson
Diarmid and Grainne - Adrian McKinty
The Fortunate Isles - Dave Hutchinson
First to Score - Garbhan Downey
Fisherman’s Blues - Brian McGilloway
The Life Business - John Grant

Pre-orders can be made soon

And hot on the heels of Part One, we have Part Two, this time focusing on the Fairy Tale stories within the collection:

‘The Price of Peace’ by Anna M. Lowther is longest and my top pick, because it takes a rather pleasant and optimistic story from my culture. This is the story about the snow girl, who from a human-shaped snow figure became a real girl as a gift to a couple, who couldn’t conceive a child of their own. This is a very sweet story, the way I have been hearing it since a child, but Lowther has taken it and run a ‘When Happy Endings Go Horribly Wrong’ and the snow girl becomes from a blessing to a primordial evil.

Full review below:

Temple Library Reviews: Dead Souls Part Two: Once Upon A Time

An interesting review of The Phantom Queen Awakes, by someone not really interested in reading Morrigan Books’ releases (apparently we’re too dark)…

…The White Heifer of Fearchair by T.A. Moore. It’s one of the few stories that has absolutely nothing to do with war (or so you may think) and is a retelling of an old Irish story. (More or less – I don’t recall it being very similar to this story, but I could very easily be thinking of a wholly different one.) It’s very sad, in its way, but there’s a certain beauty in that sadness – the way the details are captured and how a lot is said without words. ’tis a pretty, pretty thing…

Full review below:

Libri Touches review of The Phantom Queen Awakes