Tales from Sniper's Rest

The Moon Bog


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Book Summary;

The unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional village in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the superstitious local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.


Words I had to look up in order to read this book;

- Effulgence - the ability to shine brightly.

- Peristyles - a row of columns surrounding a space within a building such as a court or internal garden or edging a veranda or porch.

- Portent - a sign or warning that a momentous or calamitous event is likely to happen.

- Morass - an area of muddy or boggy ground.

- Unanimity - agreement by all people involved; consensus.


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