The Return of Fursey

By: Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda (Introduction by)

Paperback | 28 February 2023

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"Henceforth I will serve Evil. I'll become a most depraved character. I'll turn really wicked."

This worthy sequel to The Unfortunate Fursey follows the continued exploits of that reluctant sorcerer Fursey, now a middling grocer in the realm of King Ethelwulf. But when Fursey's wife is seized by an Irish delegation led by her jilted fianc©, Fursey resolves to embrace evil, return to Ireland, and reclaim his wife. Readers will delight in the return of Fursey's unhelpful familiar Albert and the Prince of Darkness; plus such memorable new characters as George the Vampire, Sigurd the Skull Splitter, and the wealthy Festus Wisenuts. "The Return of Fursey shows no lessening at all in Wall's quality of imagination," wrote critic Robert Hogan. "As with the best of Charlie Chaplin, or of Anton Chekhov or O'Casey, the laughter is very akin to high art."

Industry Reviews

"Wildly fantastic, intensely satirical, and wickedly comic." - The Irish Times

ï»ï»ï»"For anyone who doesn't know Fursey, this opportunity to do so is not to be missed." - Dublin Book Review

ï»ï»"I love this thing - a very funny 1946 novel about an Irish monk stumbling through a parade of supernatural adventures. If I wasn't doing Hellboy I think I'd be very happy spending a couple years drawing an adaptation of this." - Mike Mignola

"Irish novelists of the last century generally eschewed outright fantasy, with the honourable exceptions of Flann O'Brien's wilder flights of fancy, and the neglected work of comic genius that is Mervyn Wall's The Unfortunate Fursey." - John Connolly

"The Fursey books are essentially freewheeling fantasy with satirical understones . . . Wall writes with elegance and the occasional poetic flourish; his world has its rules, but they are not the rules, as we conceive them, of our modern world." - Wormwood

"This is a book that should be far more widely cherished . . . an extremely readable, entertaining and pertinent novel." - Dublin Inquirer

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