Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu
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Le Fanu is a Victorian writer who, along with Edgar A. Poe before him, invented the unity of mood and economy of means that characterizes the modern horror short story. Jack Sullivan, in Horror Literature, maintains that "Le Fanu was more revolutionary than Poe, for he began the process of dismantling the Gothic props and placing the supernatural tale in everyday settings." These quietly elegant tales include a female vampire who predates Dracula, a vicar troubled by a spectral monkey, a cruel hanging judge who gets his due and many other fine portents and hauntings.
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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.
Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu,J. Sheridan LeFanu,Dover Publications,0486204154,Fiction,Fiction - Horror,Ghost,Ghost stories,Ghost stories, English,Horror - Anthologies,Mystery & Detective - General,Mystery/Suspense,19th century fiction,Classic fiction,History / Ireland,Horror & ghost stories,Short stories
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