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  • The Evil Guest
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / JSheridan Le Fanu
    The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century, Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (1814–1873) has, sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so. To this day, contemporary readers who happen across his works praise his talent for weaving a tense literary atmosp...
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    17,66 €

  • The Wyvern Mystery
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / JSheridan Le Fanu
    The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century, Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (1814–1873) has, sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so. To this day, contemporary readers who happen across his works praise his talent for weaving a tense literary atmosp...
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    20,92 €

  • Ghost Stories And Tales Of Mystery (1851)
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    35,39 €

  • The Tenants Of Malory V2
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    32,26 €

  • The Rose and the Key
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    A beautiful young heroine-A cruel and unfeeling mother-A one-eyed spy-A mesmerist-A lunatic asylum. These are the perfect components for a Victorian sensation novel, and in The Rose and the Key, J. Sheridan Le Fanu weaves them into a thrilling Gothic mystery. The terror builds slowly, as young Maud Vernon and her old cousin Maximilla enjoy a sketching tour through Wales. Ominou...
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    24,07 €

  • The Cock And Anchor (1895)
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    24,01 €

  • Willing To Die
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,48 €

  • The House by the Churchyard by J. Sheridan LeFanu, Fiction, Classics, Horror, Fantasy
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / JSheridan Le Fanu
    J. Sheridan LeFanu -- Irish author of such classics as the short vampire novel Carmella (reputed to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula) and A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family (said to be the tale that gave rise to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights -- lived from 1814 until 1873. He wrote all sorts of tales, but he’s best remembered as a writer of mysteries an...
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    23,39 €

  • In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Fiction, Literary, Horror, Fantasy
    J. Sheridan Lefanu / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / JSheridan Lefanu
    First published in 1872, the year before Sheridan Le Fanu’s death. The second and third editions are revised versions of previously published stories and the fourth and fifth are long enough to be called novellas. The title is taken from 1 Corinthians 13:12, a deliberate misquotation of the passage which describes humanity as perceiving the world 'through a glass darkly'. ...
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    15,78 €

  • Green Tea and Other Strange Tales by J. Sheridan LeFanu, Fiction, Literary, Horror, Fantasy
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / JSheridan Le Fanu
    Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.From 'Green Tea': 'The evil spirits associated with man are, indeed from the hells, but when with man they are not then in hell, but are taken out thence. The place where they then are, is in the midst between heaven an...
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    10,45 €

  • The Room in the Dragon Volant
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    'J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). Irish journalist, novelists, and short story writer, called the father of the modern ghost story. Although Le Fanu was one of the most popular writers of the Victorian era, he is not so widely read anymore. Le Fanu’s best-known works include Uncle Silas (1864), a suspense story, and The House by the Churchyard (1863), a murder mystery. His vamp...
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    30,33 €

  • Uncle Silas by J.Sheridan LeFanu, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Classics, Literary
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    Addicted to laudanum and prey to inexplicable visions, Silas appears like a spirit to his neice Maud. Silas has his own plans for Maud and the fortune she will inherit. Uncle Silas is LeFanu’s best-known novel, dealing with themes of spiritualism, secret corruption, greed, lust, and other peculiar Victorian obsessions. A classic novel of spiritual terror by opne of the true mas...
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    35,07 €

  • 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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    11,41 €


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