Ireland’s Forgotten Monsters: The Dark Bestiary of an Ancient Island

Ireland has always had monsters. Some became famous. Others stayed buried.Ireland's Forgotten Monsters opens the door to the darker side of Irish folklore, where the old stories are stranger, bloodier, and far more unsettling than the tourist version of myth ever allowed.Beyond leprechauns and banshees lies an older bestiary of undead chieftains, hungry ghosts, death riders, sea people, lake beasts, fairy hounds, monstrous women, battle spirits, and beings so ancient they seem to belong to the land itself. These are the creatures whispered about in townlands, churchyards, famine roads, ruined forts, western windows, haunted waters, and lonely places where the past has never fully gone quiet.Inside this dark Irish bestiary, you will encounter: The Abhartach, Ireland's blood drinking undead chieftain, buried under stone and thorn.The Dearg Due, the wronged woman who rose from the grave for revenge.The Sluagh, the terrifying host of the unforgiven dead, said to come from the west.The Dullahan, the headless rider whose arrival means death has already chosen a name.The Fear Gorta, the hungry ghost of famine roads, begging in the shape of old catastrophe.The Merrow, the sea people of Ireland's coast, beautiful, dangerous, and never fully human.The Dobhar Chú, the water hound whose cry could bring death from the lake.The Ellén Trechend, the three headed monster of early Irish tradition.The Morrigan's creatures, carrion birds, battle forms, and omens of blood.The Púca, the shapeshifting spirit of roads, fields, and wild nights.The Bánánach, the shrieking women of slaughter and battlefield terror.The Each Uisce, the water horse that carries riders to drowning.The Cù Sìth, the fairy hound whose cry belonged to the border of death.The Grogoch, the strange hairy household spirit remembered in rural belief.This is Ireland as the old stories knew it, an island of sacred wells and cursed roads, of thorn trees and haunted waters, of creatures that warned, punished, hunted, guarded, or waited. Some were feared because they killed. Some were feared because they remembered. Some were feared because they belonged to a world older than human law.A dark, atmospheric journey into Irish folklore, Celtic myth, supernatural tradition, and the monsters modern Ireland almost forgot.

Pagina's: 129, Paperback, Independently published