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By: Joseph Sheridan LeFanu (1814-1873) | |
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Carmilla
Published in 1872, Carmilla is an early work in the vampire literature genre and is incidentally one of the most influential of its type. The gothic novella accounts the tale of Laura, a young woman who becomes susceptible to the friendship and seductive charms of the mysterious Carmilla. A gripping tale of coincidence, mystery, compulsion, dark romance, and deception, Le Fanu’s classic is regarded as having paved the way for modern takes on vampires. Narrated by Laura, the novel opens with a recount of her childhood, as she depicts growing up in a beautiful, yet solitary castle encompassed by a forest in Styria, Austria... | |
Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Swedenborg. | |
Wylder's Hand
The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people involved do not seem to like the idea. Before the wedding, Mark disappears. But to where? And how will the people around him react to his disappearance? | |
The Evil Guest
Le Fanu’s inimitable style continues with The Evil Guest, a murder mystery fraught with dark imagery and mysterious characters. An unwanted guest visiting a dreary and isolated home is murdered; the thriller leads the reader down countless ‘dead’ ends before revealing the identity of the guilty party. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt) | |
The Room in the Dragon Volant
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom he glimpses momentarily behind her black veil. In order to be near her, he takes a room in the Dragon Volant (the Flying Dragon), a haunted inn that has been the site of mysterious disappearances. | |
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 | |
In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 | |
Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle | |
In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 | |
In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3 | |
The Purcell Papers | |
Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin | |
Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton | |
Willing to Die | |
The Tenants of Malory, Volume 1 | |
The Tenants of Malory, Volume 2 | |
The Tenants of Malory, Volume 3 |