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.