Review: The Haunted Trail: The War of the Dublin Woods by John C. Lukegord ★★★
Following the reign of terror that was McRandle, killer of the Dublin docks, horror strikes the Irish town once more. In the year of 1892 the woods of Dublin become host to a brutal murder of a budding couple who dare enter it. Ignoring local superstitions, the two trespass into cursed land, and discover the truth behind the dreaded place, at the expense of their lives at the hands of the escaped lunatics of the local asylum.
Concurrently, after outwitting McRandle, Mick Patrician has made it his life purpose to destroy and remove the evil that lurks in the Woods. […]
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