The Horrific Secret of Westport House is the first book in Roddy O’Sullivan’s Fomorian Series, a

trilogy for 10-14 year-olds, set in the west of Ireland.

Shane Donnegan spends virtually all his life in Australia before moving back to his native

Westport. The 14-year-old is flabbergasted when he smashes his new school’s swimming

records. He’s further gobsmacked that he can understand languages he’s never heard before.

On a school trip to Westport House, he becomes strangely drawn to the surroundings and the

weird activities of its billionaire owner, Lord Dunraven. Suspecting something seriously nasty is

going on, Shane and friends sneak by night into Westport House Estate. Passing through fields

of gigantic Venus fly-traps, they discover that Dunraven is secretly carrying out grotesque

experiments – supposedly assisted by a prehistoric druid. Encountering deadly dangers, Shane

learns that the unspeakable horrors within the Estate have disturbing links with his own dark

past ...

Roddy O’Sullivan is a keen children’s writer. After a long career in medicine, he now devotes

himself to lecturing and campaigning for the protection of the lakes, rivers and wildlife of his

native Ireland. His lifelong interest in past civilisations was the inspiration behind his adventure

stories for younger readers which involve the unexpected meetings of today’s world with that of

the ancients.