"Irish Mystery Stories" is a work of fiction consisting of 3 short stories; "The Child in Black," "The Voice" and "On the Third Day" "The Child in Black" is based on an ancient legend of the spectral apparition of a girl in a rural Irish setting at a medieval monastery. "The Voice," is a story of the mysterious and inexplicable disappearance of a child in a primary school in Dublin City. "On the third day" is the story of a singular apparition that took place during the Easter Rising, 1916.