Twa Black Corbies: Short Stories by Omewenne Grimstone

Badb, Nemain, and Macha together are the three crows who make up the imposing Irish Goddess, The Morrigan. In Twa Black Corbies these sisters inhabit three inner books: the first of retold tales and histories, the second of dark surreal fiction, the third is a book about Death collecting its children throughout the centuries – a kind of Danse Macabre. Stories within are: the history of the werewolf, Peter Stubbe as told through the eyes of his horrified daughter; another is of a young archaeologist who finds herself drawn eerily and maternally to what lies beneath the peat bog on an excavation; plus a murderer who over a Stuart Yuletide in Scotland is confronted by frighteningly costumed mummers who commit him to play a game of dice for his life against the wail of a banshee.