The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8) / The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan

A collection of essays, sketches, and short stories records rural encounters with faery lore, ghosts, and the supernatural, mixing reportorial observation with lyrical reflection. Village tellers, priests, and eccentric characters offer accounts that probe belief and unbelief, memory, and imagination; essays theorize about the faery commonwealth and the nearness of other worlds. A linked sequence of Red Hanrahan tales moves through his wanderings, romantic entanglements, curses, visionary experiences, and eventual death, folding mythic material into personal and cultural portraiture of Ireland.