We are going to talk if you please in the ensuing chapters of what was going on in Chapelizod about a hundred years ago. A hundred years to be sure is a good while; but though fashions have changed some old phrases dropped out and new ones come in; and snuff and hair-powder and sacques and solitaires quite passed away...' (Excerpt from Prologue)

The House by the Churchyard (Doughty Library)

SHERIDAN LE FANU

STEIN AND DAY.

The Rose and the Key (Pocket Classics)

Sutton Publishing+ltd

Ghost Stories

Literature & Fiction

Oscar, Wilde

Edgar-Allan-Poe

Hugh Walpole

SAKI

Charles Dick

Genre Fiction

CATHY BOOKS

The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century, Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (1814–1873) has, sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so. To this day, contemporary readers who happen across his works praise his talent for weaving a tense literary atmosphere tinged by the supernatural and bolstered by hints of ambiguous magic. Though his best-known works were horror tales, Le Fanu’s first novels were historical in nature. The House by the Churchyard, originally published in 1863, bridges the author’s early work and his later experiments in Gothic horror, and is said to have inspired James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. A rambling tale of the charming Irish town of Chapelizod in 1767, it sees men of the Royal Irish Artillery stationed in the village and disrupting the quiet life there... though the brooding Mr. Mervyn and his coffin and the mysterious newcomer Mr. Dangerfield lend elements of the unknown as well. With a series of new editions of Le Fanu’s works, Cosimo is proud to reintroduce modern book lovers to the writings of the early master of suspense fiction who pioneered the concept of “psychological horror.”

The House by the Churchyard

Appletree Press, Ltd.

Edited by M.R. James In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight'. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader. The great M.R. James, who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.'

Madam Crowls Ghost (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)

Literary

Wordsworth Editions

Demons, vengeful spirits, insanity, premature burials and lesbian vampires, In a Glass Darkly contains five diabolical tales of horror and mystery that will get the heart racing. Each story, including the famous 'Green Tea' and 'Carmilla', is presented as a case from the posthumous papers of Dr Martin Hesselius, a metaphysical physician who has no doubt as to the existence of supernatural phenomena - unlike our anxious protagonists... These traditional, yet unfamiliar tales were revered upon release, with Bram Stoker writing his own vampire story some twenty years later, and Henry James once suggesting that this is 'the ideal reading... for the hours after midnight'.

In a Glass Darkly

Naxos AudioBooks

Carmilla

Classics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Great Classic Horror Stories

Charles, Dickens

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Robert-Louis-Stevenson

Bram, Stoker

Mary, Shelley

Alison Larkin Presents and Blackstone Audio

Carmilla (Em Portugues do Brasil)

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