You Will Dye at Midnight: Victorian Threatening Letters McCracken Donal

Victorian Ireland was global champion of threatening letters. These victims were sometimes landlords, land agents, and land grabbers. This book reveals the murky world where tens of thousands of these letters and notices were nailed to barn doors or sent by penny post, intimidating, giving 'fair warning' and terrorizing the recipients.

It investigates who sent threatening letters and why they sent them. Equally, they could be small farmers disputing land occupancy with neighbors.This book examines the nature, extent, and context of this unusual trend. It also delves into who received such unwelcome correspondence and what action they took, giving new insights particularly into 19th-century rural