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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 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
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
Carmilla + CD, Level 3, Pearson Active Reader by Fanu, Sheridan Le
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Pearson English Active Readers Ser.
Pearson English Active Readers present stories carefully written and graded across five levels for teachers of English who want to activate their students' language through reading, . From original stories, classic and contemporary fiction, to film adaptations and nonfiction titles, an integrated skil ...Show more
Carmilla: The cult classic that inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Classic Fiction
A beautiful gift edition of this cult classic female vampire story, which predated and greatly influenced Dracula. "I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you." A lonely castle, deep in the Styrian forest - here Laura leads a solitary life, with onl ...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
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 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
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