The Complete Short Stories Of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Volume 1

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519249401
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Volume 1 written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of The Complete Short Stories of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu has all of the following works: A Chapter In The History Of A Tyrone Family, A Stable For Nightmares, An Adventure Of Hardress Fitzgerald, A Royalist Captain, Billy Malowney's Taste Of Love And Glory, Ghost Stories And Tales Of Mystery, Ghostly Tales, Jim Sulivan's Adventures In The Great Snow, Madam Crowl's Ghost And Other Tales Of Mystery

Author : J. S. LeFanu
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486144690
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Stories and Mysteries written by J. S. LeFanu and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRemaining supernatural fiction by writer many consider greatest ghost story writer of all time. Mystery stories are equally memorable. /div

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486204154
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of the Victorian master's classic tales of horror reveals his ability to depict the supernatural

Author : J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 1537817388
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evil Guest written by J. Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letter from the rich cousin came at a low point in the Marston family's finances. The man was as ill-bred and pushing as ever: utterly the model of a noxious relation -- but he was rich, and the Marstons were all but destitute. The family could hardly refuse him. But they would come to rue that letter, and the invitation that followed it; it was the beginning of the end for all of them. Of course it was! Common sense tells us not to take on . . . THE EVIL GUEST

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Leonaur Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780857061485
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of an eight book collection from 'the grandfather of the ghost story' Whilst many highly regarded writers have created collections of strange and supernatural fiction and several other authors are now primarily known for their literary efforts within this genre, the author of this large collection surely stands alone. Not only is his body of supernatural and gothic fiction extremely substantial, he wrote ghost and horror fiction if not exclusively then certainly as the subject matter of the overwhelming majority of his considerable literary output. His authorship of novels and stories of the other worldly began from the first part of the nineteenth century making him one of the earliest specialist exponents of the genre in the 'modern' period. He is widely regarded as a master of his craft, and it is certain that once he had set out to create a thrill or chill in the minds of his reader one was sure to follow! J. Sheridan Le Fanu was without doubt the premier writer of ghostly fiction during the Victorian age and his influence on the genre can be seen in the work of his peers and those who followed after. An Irishman, in 1861 Le Fanu became the editor of the 'Dublin University Magazine' and this gave his fiction ready access to the public. 'The House by the Churchyard' and 'Wylder's Hand' were originally published in the magazine. This special Leonaur edition of Le Fanu's weird and supernatural fiction runs to 8 substantial volumes and is possibly the most comprehensive collection of his work yet assembled. It includes his highly regarded novels and a plethora of shorter works designed to provoke fear and horror among his dedicated aficionados. This volume contains the novel Uncle Silas, the novelette Green Tea and five short stories: Ghost Stories of Chapelizod; Ghost Stories of the Tiled House; Haunted; Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow and Laura Silver Bell. All volumes are available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket for collectors.

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541229754
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The Ghostly Tales - Volume I of V written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots. The children were tutored but, according to his brother William, the tutor taught them little if anything. Le Fanu was eager to learn and used his father's library to educate himself about the world. He was a creative child and by fifteen had taken to writing poetry. Accepted into Trinity College, Dublin to study law he also benefited from the system used in Ireland that he did not have to live in Dublin to attend lectures, but could study at home and take examinations at the university as and when necessary. This enabled him to also write and by 1838 Le Fanu's first story The Ghost and the Bonesetter was published in the Dublin University Magazine. Many of the short stories he wrote at the time were to form the basis for his future novels. Indeed, throughout his career Le Fanu would constantly revise, cannabilise, embellish and re-publish his earlier works to use in his later efforts. Between 1838 and 1840 Le Fanu had written and published twelve stories which purported to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell. Set mostly in Ireland they include classic stories of gothic horror, with grim, shadowed castles, as well as supernatural visitations from beyond the grave, together with madness and suicide. One of the themes running through them is a sad nostalgia for the dispossessed Catholic aristocracy of Ireland, whose ruined castles stand in mute salute and testament to this history. On 18 December 1844 Le Fanu married Susanna Bennett, the daughter of a leading Dublin barrister. The union would produce four children. Le Fanu was now stretching his talents across the length of a novel and his first was The Cock and Anchor published in 1845. A succession of works followed and his reputation grew as well as his income. Unfortunately, a decade after his marriage it became an increasing source of difficultly. Susanna was prone to suffer from a range of neurotic symptoms including great anxiety after the deaths of several close relatives, including her father two years before. In April 1858 she suffered an "hysterical attack" and died in circumstances that are still unclear. The anguish, profound guilt as well as overwhelming loss were channeled into Le Fanu's work. Working only by the light of two candles he would write through the night and burnish his reputation as a major figure of 19th Century supernaturalism. His work challenged the focus on the external source of horror and instead he wrote about it from the perspective of the inward psychological potential to strike fear in the hearts of men. A series of books now came forth: Wylder's Hand (1864), Guy Deverell (1865), The Tenants of Malory (1867), The Green Tea (1869), The Haunted Baronet (1870), Mr. Justice Harbottle (1872), The Room in the Dragon Volant (1872) and In a Glass Darkly. (1872). But his life was drawing to a close. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu died in Merrion Square in his native Dublin on February 7th, 1873, at the age of 58.

Author : J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542670289
Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales written by J. Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schalken the Painter (1851) and An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (1853). Douw assented, and inwardly acknowledged that fortune had been extraordinarily kind to his niece; the stranger, he thought, must be both wealthy and generous, and such an offer was not to be despised, though made by a humourist, and one of no very prepossessing presence. Rose had no very high pretensions for she had but a modest dowry, which she owed entirely to the generosity of her uncle; neither had she any right to raise exceptions on the score of birth, for her own origin was far from splendid, and as the other objections, Gerald resolved, and indeed, by the usages of the time, was warranted in resolving, not to listen to them for a moment.

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Madam Crowl's Ghost written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aoife Mary Dempsey
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178683829X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu written by Aoife Mary Dempsey and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–73) in its original material and cultural contexts of the early-to-mid Victorian period in Ireland. Le Fanu’s longstanding relationship with the Dublin University Magazine, a popular literary and political journal, is crucial in the examination of his work; likewise, his fiction is considered as part of a wider surge of supernatural, historical and antiquarian activity by Irish Protestants in the period following the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1801). This study discusses in detail Le Fanu’s habit of writing and re-writing stories – a practice that has engendered much confusion and consternation – while posthumous collections of his work are compared with original publications to demonstrate the importance of these material and cultural contexts. In new critical readings of aspects of Le Fanu’s best-known fiction, light is cast on some of his overlooked work through recontextualisation.

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781686475221
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first occurrence in my existence, which produced a terrible impression upon my mind, which, in fact, never has been effaced, was one of the very earliest incidents of my life which I can recollect. Some people will think it so trifling that it should not be recorded here. You will see, however, by-and-by, why I mention it. The nursery, as it was called, though I had it all to myself, was a large room in the upper story of the castle, with a steep oak roof. I can't have been more than six years old, when one night I awoke, and looking round the room from my bed, failed to see the nursery maid. Neither was my nurse there; and I thought myself alone. I was not frightened, for I was one of those happy children who are studiously kept in ignorance of ghost stories, of fairy tales, and of all such lore as makes us cover up our heads when the door cracks suddenly, or the flicker of an expiring candle makes the shadow of a bedpost dance upon the wall, nearer to our faces. I was vexed and insulted at finding myself, as I conceived, neglected, and I began to whimper, preparatory to a hearty bout of roaring; when to my surprise, I saw a solemn, but very pretty face looking at me from the side of the bed. It was that of a young lady who was kneeling, with her hands under the coverlet. I looked at her with a kind of pleased wonder, and ceased whimpering. She caressed me with her hands, and lay down beside me on the bed, and drew me towards her, smiling; I felt immediately delightfully soothed, and fell asleep again. I was wakened by a sensation as if two needles ran into my breast very deep at the same moment, and I cried loudly. The lady started back, with her eyes fixed on me, and then slipped down upon the floor, and, as I thought, hid herself under the bed. - Taken from "Carmilla" written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu