The Jester of Malahide Castle: A Father Declan Supernatural Mystery

By Patrick Dorn

A jolly ghost enlists the aid of a gifted Franciscan priest to help thwart a malevolent phantom's dastardly plot at one of Ireland's most haunted castles. Featuring a cameo appearance by Sir Sly the Sacred Eel.

The Father Declan Supernatural Mysteries are a series of standalone upbeat, redemptive, and often humorous urban fantasy short stories set in Ireland.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patrick Dorn
• Release date: Jan 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201831646

Patrick Dorn

Patrick Dorn used to write weird westerns set in Old California, New Mexico, and Colorado, but then he visited Ireland. Now his supernatural fiction alternates between The West and The Emerald Isle, but is always, always weird. He's also an Anglican priest and a full-time chaplain. Check out Patrick's blog, stories, plays, musicals, children's books, and more at www.PatrickDorn.com. You can reach him at [e-mail]

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The Jester of Malahide Castle

THE JESTER OF MALAHIDE CASTLE

A Father Declan Supernatural Mystery

PATRICK DORN

Copyright © 2022 by Patrick Dorn

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Contents

The Father Declan Supernatural Series

An Unlikely Action Hero

Chapter 1

Eeling the Well

Chapter 2

A Graveyard Ghost

Chapter 3

A Pernicious Puritan

Chapter 4

A Certain Uncertainty

Chapter 5

Reluctant Wraiths

Chapter 6

The Lady in White

Chapter 7

Mad Maud’s Revenge

Chapter 8

Friar into the Fray

Chapter 9

A Skirmish at Saint Sylvester’s

Afterword

Also by Patrick Dorn

About the Author

The Father Declan Supernatural Series

THE FATHER DECLAN

SUPERNATURAL MYSTERIES

The Banshee of Duckett’s Grove

The Black Hag of Shanagolden

The Carlingford Leprechaun

Invasion of the Ballybogs

The Kylemore Abbey Ghost Whistler

The Jester of Malahide Castle

Last Call at Temple Bar

The Offaly Werewolves

The Pied Piper of Leixlip

The Portumna Bridge Troll

The Skibbereen Famine Man

The Viking Vermin of Dunmore Cave

The Wexford Christmas Imps

An Unlikely Action Hero

A jolly ghost enlists the aid of a gifted Franciscan priest to help thwart a malevolent phantom’s dastardly plot at one of Ireland’s most haunted castles. Featuring a cameo appearance by Sir Sly the Sacred Eel.

The Father Declan Supernatural Mysteries are a series of standalone upbeat, redemptive, and often humorous urban fantasy short stories set in Ireland.

Chapter One

EELING THE WELL

It was the 19th of April, and with all the Masses and obligations of Holy Week behind him, Franciscan Father Declan O’Shea was eager to venture back