Description

An Irish Franciscan priest with the spiritual gift of Insight and the heavenly assistance of popular saints pursues his ministry of helping the haunted and releasing earthbound spirits.

In these six long-form short stories previously published individually, Father Declan helps a jolly jester battle a rampaging wraith in knight's armor, brings blessed harmony back to an abbey plagued by a persistently musical teenaged spirit, joins psychic Morgane Delaney in confronting a wailing banshee at a burned-out castle, delivers an anorexic woman from an insatiable Famine ghoul, fights fierce phantom Vikings alongside a gaggle of hurley stick-wielding little girls, and organizes a merry liberation event for restless haunts at a Dublin pub.

The Father Declan stories are always upbeat and redemptive. Some are humorous, and others mildly horrifying.