To show his belief in his brother, Maud Ruthyn's father nominates him as her guardian, and leaves her entire fortune to her Uncle Silas if she should die under age. The orphaned 17-year-old Maud refuses to marry Silas's son, is imprisoned and avoids a murder attempt.
'the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as 'The Invisible Prince' because of his reclusive and nocturnal habits, Le Fanu was fascinated by the occult. His writings draw on the Gothic tradition, elements of ...
Sixteen stories by greatest Victorian master of the chilling tale: "Carmilla" (perhaps the classic vampire thriller), "Green Tea," "The Familiar," "The Haunted Baronet," "Madam Crowl's Ghost," "The Dead Sexton," plus 10 others.
This is one of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In "Uncle Silas" (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the ...
"The House by the Churchyard" is simply a triumph of style. From the outset, this particular work contrives to create an atmosphere of such uneasy foreboding, that the reader cannot help but be drawn in, despite any well-founded misgivings. This is one of the finest examples of literature of this kind, from a master of the art of the supernatural. ...
Joesph Sheridan LeFanu is considered the inventory of the modern "ghost story", and was an inspiration and mentor for many of the 19th century's greatest writers, including Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Charloote Bronte, Mary Shelly, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many more. This superb anthology brilliantly eerie tales will bring ...
As genteel Miss Alice Maybell enters the Vale of Carwell, she notices, in a passing carriage, a tall, mysterious female who stirs in her a chilling sense of foreboding. Alice is plunged into a tale of rural terror, centred on Carwell Grange, the place where Alice spent her orphaned childhood.
There was a little fair-haired child playing on the ground before the steps as I whirled by. The old rector had long passed away; the shorts, gaiters, and smile -- a phantom; and nature, who had gathered in the past, was providing for the future. The pretty mill-road, running up through Redman's Dell, dank and dark with tall romantic trees, was ...
The exquisite and deadly vampire "Carmilla" haunts LeFanu's influential novel. A Gothic tale of blood and terror, "Carmilla" inspired later classics by Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Four chilling tales by great Victorian master offer high craftsmanship, literary skill, psychological penetration. Title story plus Squire Toby's Will, The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh and Sir Dominick's Bargain. New introductory Note.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era. Le Fanu studied law at Trinity College in Dublin. He soon abandoned law for journalism. In 1838 he began ...
A beautiful young heroine-A cruel and unfeeling mother-A one-eyed spy-A mesmerist-A lunatic asylum. These are the perfect components for a Victorian sensation novel, and in "The Rose and the Key," J. Sheridan Le Fanu weaves them into a thrilling Gothic mystery. The terror builds slowly, as young Maud Vernon and her old cousin Maximilla enjoy a ...
"Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Tales of Mystery" is a collection of twelve of the finest stories from a master of psychological suspense. Le Fanu's pedigree in this genre is undoubted; his novella Carmella inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, amongst others; and he is regarded as the father of the Irish gothic style. As consistently unsettling as they ...
Sheridan Le Fanu, wrote fellow author, M.R. James, 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories'. A best-selling author from 1860 to 1880, Le Fanu is feted today as a master of his art. "In a Glass Darkly" is a remarkable collection of tales of the supernatural, in which the patients of Dr Heselius are plagued by malignant ...
A collection of papers from Francis Purcell, a parish priest in the south of Ireland. Father Purcell was a collector of old local traditions, and weirder things, too. (Genereal History)
Originally published in 1870 and reissued for the POCKET CLASSICS series, a mystery story which centres on a strange and mysterious man with a disfigurement and a 'dark' past which he reveals to no-one. By the author of IN A GLASS DARKLY and THE ROSE AND THE KEY.
From "Green Tea": "The evil spirits associated with man are, indeed from the hells, but when with man they are not then in hell, but are taken out thence. The place where they then are, is in the midst between heaven and hell, and is called the world of spirits -- when the evil spirits who are with man, are in that world, they are not in any ...
This title features an introduction by Kathryn White. 'I thought I saw a human face, about the most terrible my fancy could have called up, looking fixedly into the room. The face gazed towards the bed, and in the imperfect light looked like a livid mask, with chalky eyes'. Master of the ghost story genre M.R. James commented that the, 'final ...
This volume contains two of LeFanu's stories: "A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" (a story which may have been an inspiration for Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre) and "The Murdered Cousin" (the earliest "sealed room" mystery known.) Although not well known today, LeFanu was a favorite of writers like Bram Stoker and M.R. James, who ...
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