Joseph Le Fanu: 211 books

Silas's past holds a dark mystery: the suspicious suicide of a man to whom Silas owed an enormous gambling debt, which took place within a locked, apparently impenetrable room in Silas's mansion at Bartram-Haugh. Austyn is firmly convinced of his brother's innocence.

Some time within the first ten years of the last century, there stood in the fair city of Dublin, and in one of those sinuous and narrow streets which lay in the immediate vicinity of the Castle, a goodly and capacious hostelry, snug and sound, and withal carrying in its aspect something staid and aristocratic,...

The gothic story is narrated by a young woman Laura preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein. Laura lives in a picturesque and solitary castle amid an extensive forest in Styria. Her father is a wealthy English widower retired from service to the Austrian Empire.

The Occult Fiction Collection assembles 29 of the greatest occult & supernatural stories ever written. Featuring: THE ABBOT’S GHOST, OR MAURICE TREBERNE’S TEMPTATION, by Louisa May Alcott THE GHOST, by Arnold Bennett THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN, by Charles Dickens THE...

A noble Huguenot family, owning considerable property in Normandy, the Le Fanus of Caen, were, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, deprived of their ancestral estates of Mandeville, Sequeville, and Cresseron; but, owing to their possessing influential relatives at the court of Louis the Fourteenth,...

For the first time in publishing history readers can enjoy the complete works of Sheridan Le Fanu, the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century, whose groundbreaking works were central to the development of the Gothic genre in the Victorian era. This comprehensive eBook is complemented...

The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood The Willows - Algernon Blackwood Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan No-man's-land - John Buchan The...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Watcher - and other weird stories. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work...

Le Fanu’s Ghostly Tales - Volume V Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814-1873) This ebook presents «Le Fanu’s Ghostly Tales - Volume V», from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...

Le Fanu’s Ghostly Tales - Volume II Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814-1873) This ebook presents «Le Fanu’s Ghostly Tales - Volume II», from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...

Le Fanu’s Ghostly Tales - Volume IV Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814-1873) This ebook presents «Le Fanu’s Ghostly Tales - Volume IV», from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Guy Deverell, v. 1 of 2. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Joseph...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 - 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central...

But besides the poetical powers with which he was endowed, in common with the great Brinsley, Lady Dufferin, and the Hon. Mrs. Norton, young Sheridan Le Fanu also possessed an irresistible humour and oratorical gift that, as a student of Old Trinity, made him a formidable rival of the best of the...