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Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Classic Fiction
You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever. One of the most hugely influential vampire stories of all time, Le Fanu's Carmilla was written before Bram Stoker's Dracula. A true gothic novel, it is eery, rich in character and place and bathed in blood and moonlight. When a mysterious car ...Show more
Green Tea and Other Weird Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; Aaron Worth (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...'Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Poe and M. R. James. While a number of his sensation and my ...Show more
In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'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 writi ...Show more
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
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 ...Show more
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