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  • Carmilla
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Sink your teeth into the cult classic that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Fear sweeps the countryside as people fall victim to a strange illness.  After a peculiar accident, beautiful Mircalla becomes a ward at Laura’s family home.  Soon, friendship blooms between the mysterious Mircalla and curious Laura.  Love is in the air, but so is something deadly.  Will Mircalla’s secre...
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    15,55 €

  • Wylder’s Hand
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    Wylder’s Hand is one of the most popular novel written by Irish author J. Sheridan Le Fanu, published in three volumes in 1864. It’s full of mystery and suspense, depicting Victorian era. Story is all about two ancient family groups the Brandons and the Wylders engaged in their family conflicts, over titles, incomes and ownership of the Brandon hall. Charles De Cresseron a law...
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    42,97 €

  • Reminiscences of a Bachelor
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    'I know there is a God-a dreadful God-and that retribution follows guilt.' - 'The Watcher'For the first time in over 150 years, 'The Watcher', Le Fanu’s classic tale of supernatural menace, is reissued from the pages of the Dublin University Magazine along with its original companion piece 'The Fatal Bride', a brooding gothic novella not reprinted since its first publication in...
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    22,79 €

  • Carmilla
    J.Sheridan LeFanu
    Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) by 26 years. The story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein. The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expr...
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    14,56 €

  • Carmilla
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    The haunting tale of a young woman being seduced by a female vampire, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla still manages to enthrall its readers almost two centuries later. Predating Dracula by some 26 years, Carmilla (1871) is the first and perhaps greatest of vampire stories. ...
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    28,68 €

  • Carmilla
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    The haunting tale of a young woman being seduced by a female vampire, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla still manages to enthrall its readers almost two centuries later. Predating Dracula by some 26 years, Carmilla (1871) is the first and perhaps greatest of vampire stories. ...
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    9,72 €

  • 7 best short stories - Ghost Stories
    Elizabeth Gaskell / M. R. James / Sheridan Le Fanu
    Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories - specials, a selection of works dedicated to a special subject featuring noteworthy authors. This edition is dedicated to Ghost stories. These texts were chosen based on their importance, renown and relevancy on the subject. The critic Augst Nemo selected seven tales with tormented souls that will make you shiver: An Authentic Na...
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    22,77 €

  • The Cock and Anchor
    Joseph Sheridan 1814-1873 Le Fanu
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    24,78 €

  • Uncle Silas
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Uncle Silas (1864) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Expanded from an earlier short story, Uncle Silas is considered an important precursor to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and remains the author’s most popular novel. It has been adapted several times for film, television, and radio.Following the untimely death of her father, Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at Bartram-Haugh...
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    25,21 €

  • The House by the Church-Yard
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    The House by the Church-Yard (1863) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. An important source for James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, The House by the Church-Yard is a hybrid of the mystery and historical genres of fiction. With its complex use of side plots and extensive frame narrative, the novel is central to Le Fanu’s legacy as an innovator whose literary works inspired Bram Sto...
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    28,10 €

  • Checkmate
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Checkmate (1871) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Although less well-known than his more popular works of Gothic horror and mystery, including the vampire novella Carmilla (1872) and the novel The House by the Church-Yard (1863), Checkmate remains central to Le Fanu’s legacy as an innovator whose literary works inspired Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Walter Longcl...
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    25,21 €

  • Carmilla
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) by 26 years.First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871-72), the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is a...
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    20,94 €

  • 公鸡与锚
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    这样说来，新来者从他的座位上站起来，冷静地从s的头上摘下了黑色哑光的金枪鱼，取而代之的是深色的天鹅绒帽，他是从马裤口袋里一个神秘的角落里抽出来的。然后，把假发挂在椅子的靠背上，他把座位转到桌子旁，第一次给他的同伴一个机会，让他公平地看着他的脸。如果他是第一印象的信奉者，那么他一定会明智地将展览推迟到相识取得进展之前，因为他的容貌清醒地说，除了吸引人之外，别无他物-一对灰褐色的眉毛遮盖了他的双眼。快速而刺眼的黑色，相当小，并且异常躁动而生动-嘴巴很宽，下颌弯曲得那么大，几乎导致了畸形，面部下部表现出坚决的凶猛特征，而这种特征并没有眼神火热的眼神使一切都软化了；一个巨大的突出额头，在额头上留下深深的疤痕，并经过多年的思考，使面部表情更加突出。肤色黝黑。总的来说，这种面容是那种险恶而令人不快的一种，想象力与残酷和恐怖的场面联系在一起，并且可以适当地在发烧梦...
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    22,60 €

  • Carmilla
    Joseph Le Fanu Sheridan
    Carmilla is a Gothic novella in which a young woman named Laura details her relationship with a vampire in the form of a young woman named Carmilla. The first event that Laura details in the novella is an episode from her childhood: a six-year-old Laura is attempting to sleep when she is visited by a mysterious young lady (later revealed to be the vampire Carmilla, or at least ...
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    13,02 €

  • The House by the Church-Yard
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    The House by the Church-Yard (1863) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. An important source for James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, The House by the Church-Yard is a hybrid of the mystery and historical genres of fiction. With its complex use of side plots and extensive frame narrative, the novel is central to Le Fanu’s legacy as an innovator whose literary works inspired Bram Sto...
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    21,03 €

  • Uncle Silas
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Uncle Silas (1864) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Expanded from an earlier short story, Uncle Silas is considered an important precursor to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and remains the author’s most popular novel. It has been adapted several times for film, television, and radio.Following the untimely death of her father, Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at Bartram-Haugh...
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    17,26 €

  • Checkmate
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Checkmate (1871) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Although less well-known than his more popular works of Gothic horror and mystery, including the vampire novella Carmilla (1872) and the novel The House by the Church-Yard (1863), Checkmate remains central to Le Fanu’s legacy as an innovator whose literary works inspired Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Walter Longcl...
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    17,26 €

  • Carmilla
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Carmilla (1872) is a novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Published twenty-six years before Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Le Fanu’s work of Gothic horror and mystery is considered an important early entry in the genre of vampire fiction.Recorded in the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, a medical professional with a detective’s sensibility, is the story of Laura, a teenager bearing a strange s...
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    7,94 €

  • 7 best short stories - Occult Detective
    E. and H. Heron / Sheridan Le Fanu / William Hope Hodgson
    Unlike the traditional detective, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, curses, and other supernatural elements. Some occult detectives are portrayed as being themselves psychic or in possession of other paranormal powers. The critic August Nemo selected seven mystery stories with the great experts in supernatural phenomena: The Gateway of the Monster by W...
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    23,41 €

  • WYLDER’S HAND
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    The Wylders and the Brandons share a history of intermarriage, bitter rivalry, villainy, and madness. The wedding of Mark Wylder to his rich and beautiful cousin, Dorcas Brandon, was to inaugurate a harmonious new era at Brandon Hall but as the ceremony draws near, Mark disappears without trace, leaving Dorcas in shock, and the assembled family in a state of severe agitation. W...
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    35,76 €

  • IN A GLASS DARKLY
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    This remarkable collection of stories 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 eac...
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    26,24 €

  • Carmilla
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu / JSheridan Le Fanu
    “Carmilla” is the 1872 Gothic vampire novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, a leading writer of ghost tales and horror fiction of the Victorian era. His haunting and surprisingly modern “Carmilla” was one of the first works in the vampire fiction genre and was written decades before the publication of Bram Stroker’s “Dracula” in 1897. Le Fanu’s story has been widely ...
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    6,71 €

  • Carmilla
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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  • Wylder’s Hand
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Wylder’s HandThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-...
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    27,30 €

  • Tales of the Dark Forrest 48, 53, 69, 70
    Bram Stoker / E. F. Benson / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    The great horror – sci-fi writer, editor and literary agent Forrest J Ackerman made an office and museum in his famed Ackermansion in the Griffith Park area of the Hollywood Hills of California underneath the observatory. On Saturday nights he would have his closest friends and guests gather together in the upper residence area of his mansion to share pizza or Zankou chicken an...
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    17,73 €

  • Grönt te
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    I Sverige är Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) mest känd för sin långa novell Carmilla, som stadfäste den litterära vampyrmyten som den sedan behandlades i Dracula. Le Fanu var en produktiv författare av historiska romaner och mysterieberättelser, men sitt kanske största inflytande hade han som spök- och skräckförfattare.Grönt te är på flera sätt en betydande klassiker. I denna...
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    21,54 €

  • Skuggor vid aftonlampan
    Arthur Conan Doyle / Fitz-James O'Brien / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Stödda mot väggarna stod hela rader av lik, gula, hemska, vanställda. Några gapskrattade, andra vred sig i dödsryckningar; några var nakna, andra i rika dräkter. Halvnakna häxor red på bockskelett, fasliga gnomer hakade sig fast i väggarna; över deras huvudskallar skakade en vampyr sina fantastiska vingar. Hela denna vidunderliga värld av orörliga och döda skuggbilder såg ut at...
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    25,83 €

  • Skuggor vid aftonlampan
    Arthur Conan Doyle / Fitz-James O'Brien / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Stödda mot väggarna stod hela rader av lik, gula, hemska, vanställda. Några gapskrattade, andra vred sig i dödsryckningar; några var nakna, andra i rika dräkter. Halvnakna häxor red på bockskelett, fasliga gnomer hakade sig fast i väggarna; över deras huvudskallar skakade en vampyr sina fantastiska vingar. Hela denna vidunderliga värld av orörliga och döda skuggbilder såg ut at...
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    19,93 €

  • In A Glass Darkly
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    Contemporaries of Sherlock Holmes, the occult detectives were Victorian- and Edwardian-era investigators concerned with all manner of psychic, spectral and paranormal matters, eager to separate reality—no matter how bizarre—from hoaxers and con men.In this volume, esteemed German physician Dr. Martin Hesselius relates five tales, encompassing the apparition of a beastly creatur...
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    9,08 €

  • VAMPIRES FIRST BLOOD VOLUME II
    Bram Stoker / James Grant Goldin / Sheridan Le Fanu
    The literary evolution of the female vampire begins with the legendary LILITH...but is she a cursed monster, or a symbol of the rebellious, independent woman? While the male vampire has gone from monster to anti-hero to dream boyfriend, the path of his sister in blood has been more complex and mysterious. James Grant Goldin presents a curated anthology of the original texts, so...
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    12,60 €


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