title: Tales from the Dead-House: A Collection of Macabre True Crimes
author:  Richard Whittington-Egan 
description: Richard Whittington-Egan spent thirty years as a journalist with Associated Newspapers (Daily Mail) and is a well-respected true-crime writer. He has been pursuing the study of Jack the Ripper for longer than anyone else alive. As a boy, he talked to people who had lived through the Ripper's activities. He has also acted as a reader and adviser on crime books to Little, Brown and Penguin Books, and as a reviewer for The Times, the New York Times and the London Evening Standard among others. He lives in Great Malvern.
zlib_text: **Shifter Made**
  
  Copyright 2010 by Jennifer Ashley
  
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   **Chapter One**
  
  _Baile Icin, near Dingle, Ciarrai, 1400_
  
  "Smith."
  
  Niall knew without looking up from his anvil that the woman who addressed him
  was Fae--
  
  Sidhe, the villagers called them. He could smell her, a bright, sticky-sweet
  stench that humans found irresistible.
  
  He kept his 