He has added his familiar scholarly touch by annotating the stories, providing story background information, author photos and a list of horror stories considered. Historic Horror.
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Also included is the first vampire story originally written in English by John Polidori after a dare with Lord Byron and Mary Shelley. The book contains the first vampire story by an American who was a graduate of Columbia Law School.
A collection of five stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years.
Sculptor and surgeon are now both long since dead, and it is no longer necessary to keep the secret of the two plaster casts. WHAT WAS IT? IT is, I confess, with considerable diffidence.
The House by the Churchyard (1863) is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu that combines elements of the mystery novel and the historical novel. Aside from its own merits, the novel is important as a key source for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
First published in 1864, Wylder's Hand was one of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's most popular novels, but has been largely neglected, until now. It is a nerve-jangling tale of jealousy and murder, for fans of the grisly and gripping.
A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales is a fabulous novel with the fantastic and classy story of modern fiction. joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is the author of this novel.
In a Glass Darkly
Dreams--What age, or what country of the world has not felt and acknowledged the mystery of their origin and end?
Take my word for it, there is no such thing as an ancient village, especially if it has seen better days, unillustrated by its legends of terror.
When the present writer was a boy of twelve or thirteen, he first made the acquaintance of Miss Anne Baily, of Lough Guir, in the county of Limerick.
Predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years, Carmilla tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire.
Willing to Die: A Novel
The Purcell Papers
Twenty years have passed since you last saw Mrs.
About sixty years ago, and somewhat more than twenty miles from the ancient town of Chester, in a southward direction, there stood a large, and, even then, an old-fashioned mansion-house.
The Cock and Anchor