J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M.R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.
A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era. Le Fanu studied law at Trinity College in Dublin. He soon abandoned law for journalism. In 1838 he began contributing stories to the Dublin University Magazine. He became owner of several newspapers from 1840, including the Dublin Evening Mail and the Warder. Le Fanu worked in many genres but remains best known for his mystery and horror fiction. He was a meticulous craftsman, with a penchant for frequently reworking plots and ideas from his earlier writing in subsequent pieces of writing. He specialised in tone and effect rather than "shock horror", often following a mystery format. Key to his style was the avoidance of overt supernatural effects. Among his famous works The House by the Church-Yard (1863), Uncle Silas (1864), Carmilla (1872), The Purcell Papers (1880), and The Evil Guest (1895).
An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Here are 16 classic ghost stories: "Carmilla" (perhaps the classic vampire thriller), "Green Tea", "The Familiar", "The Haunted Baronet", "Madam Crowl's Ghost", "The Dead Sexton", "An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House" plus nine others. Half these stories never published before in U.S.
Carmila
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in the sexual tension between two young women and gothic romance.
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, teenaged Laura leads a solitary life with only her father, attendant and tutor for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest—the beautiful Carmilla.
So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her entrancing new companion, one defined by mysterious happenings and infused with an implicit but undeniable eroticism. As Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day...
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion.
But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.
Carmilla - Audible Performance
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
FINALIST: The Audie Awards 2016
Audible Originals brings you a brand new audiobook adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic gothic novella, Carmilla - starring Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey), David Tennant (Doctor Who and Broadchurch) and Phoebe Fox (Life in Squares and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death).
One of the very first vampire thrillers, this audio adaptation follows 18-year-old Laura as she recounts the story of her mysterious, intriguing and beautiful house guest Carmilla, who is stranded in the forest after a carriage accident and taken in by Laura’s widowed father. The girls develop a friendship which turns into a passionate meeting of souls. A relationship of vampire and prey, the story is told through Laura’s eyes as she is drawn further into Carmilla’s terrifying world of pleasure and pain.
A masterpiece of erotic Gothic horror, Carmilla encompasses mystery, suspense, forbidden lust, violence...and lots of blood....
Carmilla has been dramatised by Robin Brooks, an actor, dramatist and author who has been working as a playwright for over 25 years. Carmilla was directed by Fiona McAlpine of Allegra Productions for Audible Originals.
Key cast:
Carmilla - Phoebe Fox
Laura - Rose Leslie
Dr Hesselius - David Tennant
Father - James Wilby
Runtime: 2 hours, 22 minutes.
Carmilla - A vampira de Karnstein
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla. A Vampira de Karnstein
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Cerca de quinze anos antes de Drácula, um livro sobre vampiros marcou a literatura gótica e estabeleceu-se entre os clássicos de horror: Carmilla, de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Aliás, não um livro sobre vampiros, sobre "a vampira". A lasciva personagem que dá titulo ao conto tornou-se uma das mais impactantes figuras do imaginário vampiresco na história. A obra é narrada por Laura, jovem que vive isolada com o pai em um castelo na Estiria - região do antigo império austro-húngaro. Uma hóspede inesperada, entretanto, despertará os sentimentos amorosos da jovem Laura, ao mesmo tempo que lhe causará certo terror ao trazer de volta antigos pesadelos da infância. Carmilla é um conto sobre sedução e horror, criaturas ancestrais e o despertar da maturidade, amor e repulsa. Um clássico excitante para os amantes do gênero.
Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Annotated
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in the sexual tension between two young women and gothic romance.
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, teenaged Laura leads a solitary life with only her father, attendant and tutor for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest—the beautiful Carmilla.
So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her entrancing new companion, one defined by mysterious happenings and infused with an implicit but undeniable eroticism. As Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day...
Carmilla: La vampira e il detective dell’occulto (Italian Edition)
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
I racconti qui presentati, "Tè verde", "Il giudice Harbottle" e "Carmilla", appartengono alla raccolta "In a Glass Darkly". Composti in momenti differenti e pubblicati su varie riviste e poi riuniti nel 1872, i singoli racconti, benché diversissime siano le storie ivi riportate, possono essere considerati parti di un’unica narrazione, fatta di oscure risonanze e di sinistri riflessi. Elemento esterno unificante è la figura-cornice del Dottor Hesselius, medico, psicologo, mistico e metafisico tedesco, primo “detective dell’occulto” della letteratura europea. Con questi racconti, Le Fanu ci invita a guardare nello specchio del reale con la consapevolezza che quanto vedremo non sarà la verità, ma una sua ombra confusa, il riflesso baluginante di qualcosa che sfugge al controllo della ragione. "Tè verde" (1869) è la storia del reverendo Jennings che, dopo la lettura di "certi volumi antichi, inconsueti, edizioni tedesche di testi in latino medievale", mentre torna a casa con l’omnibus, vede comparire una misteriosa scimmia, che da quel momento in poi, tra improvvise sparizioni e scoraggianti ricomparse, continuerà a seguirlo fissandolo con languore maligno. "Il giudice Harbottle" (1872) è il funesto racconto della nemesi piombata su Mr Harbottle, uomo malvagio e corrotto, culminante nell’onirica condanna a morte dello stesso da parte del giudice capo Twofold (letteralmente "Doppione"). "Carmilla", infine, il più famoso dei racconti di Le Fanu, narra le astuzie e i languori della vampira Carmilla.
Carmilla y otros relatos de Vampiros
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Los cuentos seleccionados para esta compilación pertenecen a lo más selecto de la literatura fantástica y de terror de su momento, y todos nos muestran una interpretación vampírica diferente como epicentro de sus historias. Carmilla, de Sheridan Le Fanu; El Vampiro de John Polidori, La Dama Pálida, de Alexandre Dumas; Un extraño suceso en la vida de Schalken, el pintor, de Sheridan Le Fanu; El Conde Magnus, de M.R. James; La transferencia, de Algernon Blackwood; Porque la sangre es la vida, de Francis Marion Crawford y Berenice, de Edgar Allan Poe, componen estas páginas y nos pintan una visión macabra del amor, de la envidia, la locura y de toda la gama de emociones humanas y otras no tanto.
Checkmate (Pocket Classics)
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Dickon the Devil
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Green Tea
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories
Haunted Lives: A Novel
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
In a Glass Darkly
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience. This new annotated edition includes an introduction, notes on the text, and explanatory notes.
NB: The Familiar is a revision of The Watcher; Mr. Justice Harbottle is a revision of An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street.
Irish Ghost Stories
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
With a word of warning to those of nervous a disposition, Wordsworth presents this spellbinding collection of chilling Celtic tales of the macabre, all drawn from the rich and varied literary tradition of a culture long enchanted by things supernatural, 'a land where ghosts and ghost-seers are so common'. Featuring the imaginative writing of such towering masters of the genre as Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Patrick Kennedy, Thomas Crofton Croker and George Moore, this volume of ghoulish masterpieces from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is an encapsulation of the arcane lore, magical landscape and fantastic creativity of the Irish. Don't attempt to read these horrifying tales alone in an empty house. Your blood will run cold as the unreal becomes real and the impossible all too possible. Indelible images will possess your imagination and haunt your dreams. Make sure all the lights are on and the doors are bolted.
Madam Crowl's Ghost
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Stories
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Mr. Justice Harbottle
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Schalken the Painter
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era.
The Dead Sexton
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Drunkard's Dream
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Evil Guest
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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(Jacketless library hardcover.)
The Familiar
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The House by the Churchyard
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian period s leading exponents of supernatural fiction, and was described by M.R. James as standing absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.
The House by the Churchyard is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders, both recent and historical whose repercussions disrupt the complacent pace of village affairs and change the lives of many of its notable characters forever. Charm and chilling darkness abound in equal measure in one of the greatest novels of a Victorian master of mystery.
The Murdered Cousin
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Mysterious Lodger
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Purcell Papers
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Room in the Dragon Volant
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
"A short . . . but most masterly story, [with] The Room in the Dragon Volant, he touched the springs of terror and suspense, as perhaps no other writer of fiction in the language has been able to do. His fine scholarship, poetic sense, and strong, yet delicate handling of language and of incident give these tales a place quite apart among works of sensational fiction. --THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE "The immobilized consciousness of young Beckett in 'The Room in the Dragon Volant' should be read as the counterpart of a lascivious and protean immortality in 'Carmilla'." -- J.W. McCormack
The Rose and the Key (Pocket Classics)
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Vision of Tom Chuff
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Wyvern Mystery (Pocket Classics)
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Wyvern Mystery combines all the elements of nail-biting horror, romantic fairy tale, psychological thriller and rich period drama to create a compelling story. When young Alice Maybell is orphaned she is taken in by Squire Fairfield, a widower with two dashing sons, Charles and Harry. As Alice blossoms into a beautiful young woman she attracts the attentions of not one but two of the men she lives with. The blissful happiness that ensues, however, is short-lived as she finds herself embroiled in the dark secrets of the Fairfield family's past and the evil ambitions of its present. In a world that is nightmarish and malevolent, nothing and no one is quite what they seem. What is the dark secret in Charles Fairfield's past? Who - or what - is the malignant presence that haunts Carwell Grange?
Uncle Silas
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.
Wylder's Hand
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Dover trade edition paperback fine no date
Кармілла
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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