Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 
Purcell Papers – Volume 1 

The Purcell Papers (1880) are a collection of thirteen Gothic, supernatural, historical and humorous short stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) originally written for the Dublin University Magazine. The first twelve were written between 1838-40 and purport to be extracts from the ‘MS. Papers of the late Rev. Francis Purcell, of Drumcoolagh’, a Catholic priest.