Toronto: Pagurian Press, (1988.). 'Canada's most feared family strikes back from the grave.' In 1880 in a lnoely farmhouse near Lucan, Ontario, one of the bloodiest massacres in Canadian history occurred when five members of the hated Donnelly family were brutally murdered. As she was being clubbed to death, old Johannah Donnelly set a curse on her killers - that every one of them would die a violent death. Although the author states that this book is not a factual account but fiction, this story of how the Donnellys were finally avenged is based on stories told in the area - in writing it, Kelley talked to oldtimers in Lucan area and searched through old newspaper, police and court records. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-889321361.