Muckross Abbey and Other Stories

Name: Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Sabina Murray
ISBN: 9781696610780

Author: Sabina Murray

Narrator: Kitty Kelly

Unabridged: 5 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 03/21/2023

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Ghost

Synopsis

"I binge-read this book, savoring the gothic creepiness at the heart of each tale. Packed with compelling, nuanced lives and the deaths that haunt them, each story is a séance—an invitation for unsettled spirits to let their presence be known, 'desperate for someone to supply the narrative.' Murray supplies it with great style and an uncanny knowingness, leaving room for our imagination to fill in the suggestive spaces with our own dark dread." —MONA AWAD, author of All's Well

Sabina Murray has long been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing listeners to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores of Cape Cod in ten strange tales that are layered, meta, and unforgettable.

From a twisted recasting of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, to an actor who dies for his art only to haunt his mother's house, to the titular "Muckross Abbey," an Irish chieftain burial site cursed by the specter of a flesh-eating groom—in this collection Murray gives us painters, writers, historians, and nuns all confronting the otherworldly in fantastically creepy ways. With notes of Wharton and James, Stoker and Shelley, now drawn into the present, these macabre stories are sure to captivate and chill.

About Sabina Murray

Sabina Murray grew up in Australia and the Philippines and is currently a member of the MFA faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of The Human Zoo, Tales of the New World, A Carnivore's Inquiry, Forgery, Valiant Gentlemen, and The Caprices, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on October 15, 2022

What a treat. Real, honest to goodness, creepy, spine tingling ghost stories. These days so many "ghost" stories seem to be filled with too many twists and turns or too much blood and gore. The Muckross Abbey collection are simply ghost stories - well told, beautifully crafted, neither too long nor......more

Goodreads review by Sue on April 19, 2023

This collection of ten stories focuses on the eerie, the off center, that gothic feeling, and, of course, ghosts. The settings vary from English moors to an Irish Abbey to an English girls’ school to a vacation villa on the Mediterranean. There are infidelities answered from both sides of the grave.......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on October 27, 2023

"Muckross Abbey and Other Stories" is a collection of ten ghostly tales by Massachussets-based author Sabina Murray, hailed by The Washington Post as a purveyor of “ironic Gothic”. In this volume, the influence of the classic English ghost story comes to the fore. “Harm”, one of the longer pieces he......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on August 19, 2022

Taking a page out of the old masters’ books, this collection is as haunting and atmospheric in ambiance and as dense in writing style as something M.R. James or someone like that might have written, but (and this is a significant Kardashian-size but) this collection is infinitely more readable. This......more

Goodreads review by The Queen of Toads on January 21, 2023

It's often quite hard to properly explain a collection of short stories because of the variety of content and quality which can exist between each story. Not so much in this case. Muckross Abbey felt like a collection of old fashion English horror stories, only with American main characters. There w......more