UNCANNY IRELAND: OTHERWORLDLY TALES OF THE STRANGE & SUBLIME EDITED BY MARIA GIAKANIKI (THE BRITISH LIBRARY) Maggotkin of Nurgle For longer than they can

For longer than they can remember

and they went on to fight in the two Iraq wars

desperate to escape the stranglehold of Marienburg

and Tommy guns

UNCANNY IRELAND: OTHERWORLDLY TALES OF THE STRANGE & SUBLIME EDITED BY MARIA GIAKANIKI (THE BRITISH LIBRARY) Maggotkin of Nurgle For longer than they can'Suddenly the upper rim of the clear setting sun disappeared behind the hill of Knockdoula, and it was twilight. Each child felt the transition like a shock and the rounded summit of Lisnavoura, now closely overhanging them, struck them with a new fear.' Ireland's rich literary history has within it a vein of potent fantastic fiction, drawing upon a deep folkloric tradition brimming with tales of the aos si (the people of the fairy mounds), the