The Best Classic Horror & Ghost Stories of J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Annotated & Illustrated: Carmilla, Green Tea, & Other Tales

This annotated and illustrated anthology presents J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s finest ghost stories, each enriched with footnotes, eerie black-and-white illustrations, an insightful introduction, and a literary analysis. Le Fanu’s supernatural fiction was unmatched in the Victorian era, influencing Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, E. F. Benson, and inspiring M. R. James, who modeled his own ghost stories on Le Fanu’s style. Bram Stoker also drew from Le Fanu’s darkly erotic vampire tales to craft Dracula. Le Fanu remains one of the most original and influential horror writers of his age, whose prose still chills modern readers with its uneasy, uncanny atmosphere. His psychological ghost stories blur the lines between conscious and unconscious, life and death, heaven and hell, light and darkness, self and shadow. In his punishing cosmos, no sin goes unnoticed, no crime unavenged; a spiritual order watches and ruthlessly disciplines every transgression. His haunting worlds teem with demon lovers, haunted portraits, seductive ghosts, hanging judges, vampiric revenants, evil fairies, shape-shifting goblins, and phantoms of the damned who intrude disturbingly upon the living. This collection immerses you in his sinister twilight, where faint glimmers of light only deepen the surrounding shadows.TALES INCLUDED: The Drunkard's Dream, The Sexton's Adventure, The Familiar, Disturbances in Aungier Street, The Ghost of a Hand, Narrative of a Haunted House, Wicked Captain Walshawe, Squire Toby's Will, Stories of Lough Guir, Madam Crowl's Ghost, Dickon the Devil, Sir Robert Ardagh, Schalken the Painter, Ultor de Lacy, Green Tea, The Child That Went with the Fairies, White Cat of Drumgunniol, Sir Dominick's Bargain, Laura Silver Bell, Carmilla, Mr Justice Harbottle Read more