Ghostly Tales (Annotated)

-Five Volumes in One-Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) 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 mystery novels were popular with mid-Victorian readers, it was in shorter forms that he truly excelled, and most showed himself an innovator in the field of uncanny fiction.This edition includes the original versions of the following stories:Schalken The Painter (1839)An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (1851)An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House (1862)Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen (1861)The Haunted Baronet (1871)Ghost Stories of Chapelizod (1851)The Drunkard's Dream (1838)The Ghost and the Bone-setter (1838)The Mysterious Lodger (1850)Laura Silver Bell (1872)Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling (1869)The Child That Went With The Fairies (1870)Stories of Lough Guir (1870)The Vision of Tom Chuff (1870)Dickon The Devil (1872).MysteriaA paperback and e-book series published by Intra.Global readability, Italian charm.

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