The Unbinding of Dublin's 'Floozie in the Jacuzzi': A Father Declan Supernatural Mystery

By Patrick Dorn

Harlot Haunts a Graven Image 

An unconventional Irish priest risks arrest when he attempts to liberate the imprisoned ghost of a saucy prostitute from one of Dublin's most notorious bronze statues. A short and funny frolic in Catholic-friendly supernatural fiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patrick Dorn
• Release date: Jun 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223646600

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 Unbinding of Dublin’s ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’

THE UNBINDING OF DUBLIN’S ‘FLOOZIE IN THE JACUZZI’

A Father Declan Supernatural Mystery

PATRICK DORN

Contents

Harlot Haunts a Graven Image

The Unbinding of Dublin’s ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’

Preview of ‘The Tipsy Ghosts of Cushendall Tower’

Also by Patrick Dorn

About the Author

Afterword

The Unbinding of Dublin’s ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’ Copyright © 2023 by Patrick Dorn.

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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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.

DEDICATION

To the memory of James Joyce and Eamonn O’Doherty.

Harlot Haunts a Graven Image

An unconventional Irish priest risks arrest when he attempts to liberate the imprisoned ghost of a saucy prostitute from one of Dublin’s most notorious bronze statues. A short and funny frolic in Catholic-friendly supernatural fiction.

The Unbinding of Dublin’s ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’

Franciscan Father Declan O’Shea folded back the nozzle of his empty Holy Water bottle and considered that if all the rivers and lakes of Ireland were suddenly transformed into Holy Water, it still wouldn’t be enough to wash away the stain of conflict and misery that tainted the soul of his beloved island.

He tucked the rectangular plastic squirt bottle through the side slit in his russet brown habit and