Haunted Lives

This collection gathers together the works by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!

Novels and Novellas:

Carmilla

Checkmate

Green Tea

Guy Deverell

Haunted Lives: A Novel

Mr. Justice Harbottle

The Cock and the Anchor (Morley Court)

The Evil Guest

The Familiar

The Haunted Baronet

The House by the Churchyard

The Room In The Dragon Volant

The Tenants of Malory

The Wyvern Mystery

Ultor De Lacy - A Legend Of Cappercullen

Uncle Silas

Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling

Willing to Die

Wylder’s Hand

Short Stories:

A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family

An Account Of Some Strange Disturbances In Aungier Street

An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain.

Billy Malowney’s Taste of Love and Glory.

Dickon The Devil

Ghost Stories Of Chapelizod

Jim Sulivan’s Adventures in the Great Snow.

Madam Crowl's Ghost

Scraps of Hibernian Ballads.

Sir Dominick's Bargain: A Legend Of Dunoran

Squire Toby's Will: A Ghost Story

Stories Of Lough Guir

Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter

The Bridal of Carrigvarah.

The Child That Went With The Fairies

The Dream

The Drunkard’s Dream.

The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh

The Ghost and the Bone Setter.

The Last Heir of Castle Connor.

The Murdered Cousin

The Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess

The Quare Gander.

The Sexton’s Adventure

The Spectre Lovers

The Watcher

The White Cat Of Drumgunniol

The Village Bully

The Vision Of Tom Chuff

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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. Three of his best known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.

Le Fanu worked in many genres but remains best known for his mystery and horror fiction. He was a meticulous craftsman and frequently reworked plots and ideas from his earlier writing in subsequent pieces. Many of his novels, for example, are expansions and refinements of earlier short stories. He specialised in tone and effect rather than "shock horror", and liked to leave important details unexplained and mysterious. He avoided overt supernatural effects: in most of his major works, the supernatural is strongly implied but a "natural" explanation is also possible. The demonic monkey in "Green Tea" could be a delusion of the story's protagonist, who is the only person to see it; in "The Familiar", Captain Barton's death seems to be supernatural, but is not actually witnessed, and the ghostly owl may be a real bird. This technique influenced later horror artists, both in print and on film (see, for example, the film producer Val Lewton's principle of "indirect horror"). Though other writers have since chosen less subtle techniques, Le Fanu's best tales, such as the vampire novella "Carmilla", remain some of the most powerful in the genre. He had enormous influence on one of the 20th century's most important ghost story writers, M. R. James, and although his work fell out of favour in the early part of the 20th century, towards the end of the century interest in his work increased and remains comparatively strong.