The Ghost of the Cross-Roads by Frederick Manley

On a stormy Christmas night in Ireland in 1843, a warm peat fire blazes inside Andy Sweeny's simple home while a fiddler plays jigs and reels for those gathered.

Suddenly, a piercing cry is heard from the darkness outside—a cry of anguish, a cry for help!

Against his wife's advice, Andy Sweeny opens the door. A stranger, breathless and pursued by shadows, stumbles across the threshold.

He falls to the floor, and as the party-goers help him up, he asks one haunting question: "Do you believe in ghosts?"

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