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Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
Table of Contents:
Novels & Novellas:
Uncle Silas
The Cock and Anchor
The House by the Church-Yard
Wylder's Hand
Guy Deverell
The Tenants of Malory
Haunted Lives
The Wyvern Mystery
Checkmate
Willing to Die
The Haunted Baronet
Spalatro
Short Story Collections:
In a Glass Darkly:
Green Tea
The Familiar
Mr Justice Harbottle
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Carmilla
The Purcell Papers:
The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh
The Last Heir of Castle Connor
The Drunkard's Dream
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
The Bridal of Carrigvarah
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
Scraps of Hibernian Ballads
Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow
A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family
An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald
The Quare Gander
Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory
Other Tales:
Madam Crowl's Ghost
Squire Toby's Will
Dickon the Devil
The Child That Went with the Fairies
The White Cat of Drumgunniol
An Account of Some Strange Distrubances in Aungier Street
Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling
Sir Dominick's Bargain
Ultor de Lacy
The Vision of Tom Chuff
Stories of Lough Guir
The Evil Guest
The Watcher
Laura Silver Bell
The Murdered Cousin
The Mysterious Lodger
An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
The Dead Sexton
A Debt of Honor
Devereux's Dream
Catherine's Quest
Haunted
Pichon and Sons
The Phantom Fourth
The Spirit's Whisper
Dr. Feversham's Story...