The Fatal Move showcases a wide scope of theme: the conte cruel, the ghost story, the locked-room mystery, and the science-fictional satire.
"Conall Cearnach" (1876-1929)-F. W. O'Connell-was a polyglot and scholar born in Clifden, Co. Galway. After serving as an Anglican priest, he became the first lecturer of Celtic Languages and Literature at Queen's University, Belfast. Interested in strange literature, O'Connell made the first translation into Irish of Robert Louis Stevenson's Cas aduain an Dr Jekyll agus Mhr Hyde in 1929. O'Connell died tragically when he was struck by a bus in October of that year.
