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Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Fiction
Following a near fatal carriage collision, the beautiful young Carmilla is taken in by the narrator Laura and her father. The two young women become strangely attracted to each other, but there seems to be more to Carmilla than meets the eye. After her arrival in the village, local peasants begin to die ...Show more
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Fiction | Series: Mint Editions Ser.
Carmilla (1872) is a novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Published twenty-six years before Bram Stoker's Dracula, Le Fanu's work of Gothic horror and mystery is considered an important early entry in the genre of vampire fiction. Recorded in the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, a medical professional with a d ...Show more
Ghost Stories - Chilling Tales of the Supernatural by Guy de Maupassant; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Edward Frederic Benson; William Hope Hodgson; Montague Rhodes James
Category: Horror
This handsome anthology brings together some of the greatest ghost stories ever written, presented in a beautiful hardback edition with silver blocking on the cover and wonderfully gothic endpaper illustrations. Featuring silent spectres, petrifying phantoms and all manner of ghastly ghosts, these tale ...Show more
Green Tea : Little Black Classic by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'A ghastly groan and a shudder..' From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each bo ...Show more
In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Horror | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most celebrated volumes, purports to be the caseboo ...Show more
Mysterious and Horrific Stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Mint Editions--Horrific, Paranormal, Supernatural and Gothic Tales Ser.
Mysterious and Horrific Stories is a collection of Gothic tales by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Although he is more widely known today for his novella Carmilla (1872), which influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and remains an important work of early vampire fiction, Le Fanu was also an influential figure ...Show more
The House by the Churchyard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Classic | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian period's leading exponents of supernatural fiction, and was described by M.R. James as standing 'absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories'. The House by the Churchyard is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the ...Show more
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
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