Description
Helicon Paperback 1965
Originally published in 1946, The Unfortunate Fursey is a wonderfully entertaining story. Fursey, a lay brother in the medieval Irish monastery of Clonmacnoise, lives a simple life, the only sort of life his simple intelligence can imagine. However, when the Prince of Darkness, and a horde of his demons descend on Clonmacnoise, he finds Fursey to be an amicable enough sort. To cleanse the monastery, the Abbot sends Fursey out into the wide world. Pursued by the local Bishop and (that enemy of all things demonic) Father Furiosus, Fursey finds himself married to a witch, turned into a wizard, and surrounded by vampires, poltergeists, demons and elementals – all against his will. Truly, life is hard for the unfortunate Fursey.
