Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Books
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A Stable For Nightmares
[english | 1896]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... A Stable for Nightmares Dickon the Devil About thirty years ago I was selected by two rich old maids to visit ...... property, including a house and demesne to which they had, a long time before, succeeded as coheiresses. The last forty miles of my journey I was obliged ...... I am told it is now a great deal less wild, and, consequently, less beautiful. At the inn where I had ...]
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An Account Of Some Strange Disturbances In Aungier Street
[english | 1853]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... fire on a winter's evening, with a cold wind rising and wailing outside, and all snug and cosy within, it has gone off-though I say it, who should not-indifferent ...... House, I think, in 1702 and had belonged to Sir Thomas Hacket, who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in James II.'s time. How old it was then, I can't ...... to pass a night alone in it. I had never pretended to conceal ...]
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An Authentic Narrative Of A Haunted House
[english | 1862]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... and ample relation of a series of marvellous phenoma, in nowise connected with what is technically termed spiritualism, which he has anywhere met with. ...... a railway. Winter was setting in when my removal thither was decided upon but there was nothing whatever dismal or depressing in the change. The house ...... had also their effect in steeling us against any such influence, ...]
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Carmilla
[french | 1871]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Summary: [Carmilla publi en 1871 est le plus clbre roman de lcrivain irlandais Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.Luvre est dailleurs lun des romans gothiques et vampiriques les plus clbres du genre tant les atmosphres y sont puissantes et mystrieuses. Laura candide souhait incarne la parfaite hrone gothique. Carmilla quant elle personnage nigmatique et dangereux incarne la sensualit et prsente lhomosexualit ...]
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Dickon The Devil
[english | 1872]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... at which I was travelling. I had never been in this part of the world before I am told it is now a great deal less wild, and, consequently, less beautiful. At ...... little disappointed. We had been driving for more than an hour, when we began to cross a wild common and I knew that, this passed, a quarter of an hour ...... shadows eastward over the sward, from the declining sun. ...]
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Ghost Stories Of Chapelizod
[english | 1851]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... up, we believe, to the period at which that corps was disbanded, the headquarters of the Royal Irish Artillery, gave it also a consequence of an humbler, ...... more profoundly than he was feared. Upon more than one occasion he had deliberately forced quarrels upon men whom he had singled out for the exhibition ...... pleasantly by the name of chancery, he held him firmly, while ...]
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Green Tea
[english | 1872]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Summary: [Alphege or the Green Monkey is a fairy tale. Andrew Lang collected it in The Yellow Fairy Book.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | short stories] Downloads: 356
Laura Silver Bell
[english | 1872]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... neighbours remark that no rowan-tree grows near, nor holly, nor bracken, and no horseshoe is nailed on the door. Not far from the birches and hazels ...... is something that would have frighted another woman about this man. He is gaunt, sombre, bony, dirty, and dressed in a black suit which a beggar would ...... hev nowt to say to thee, whoe'er thou beest. You know Laura Silver ...]
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Madam Crowls Ghost And The Dead Sexton
[english | 1871]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... GHOST I'm an ald woman now, and I was but thirteen, my last birthday, the night I came to Applewale House. My aunt was the housekeeper there, and ...... aunt kissed me in the hall, and brought me to her room. She was tall and thin, wi' a pale face and black eyes, and long thin hands wi' black mittins ...... jacket. 'I don't know what it is, ma'am.' Pale as she was, the red came up ...]
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Mr Justice Harbottle
[english | 1872]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... as the case may be, for a period measured, as we see, in Section 37. The maximum will extend to days, the minimum is little more than a second. ...... offered to be sold or let. But no one seemed to care to look at it. A thin matron, in rusty black silk, very taciturn, with large, steady, alarmed ...... happen to know perhaps more than any other man living of those mysterious ...]
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Schalken The Painter
[english | 1851]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... as to form a veil. The dress, however, is not that of any religious order. In her hand the figure bears a lamp, by which alone her figure and face are ...... day almost as much as his manners disgusted the refined of his own and yet this man, so rude, so dogged, so slovenly, in the midst of his celebrity, ...... and he stood before his unfinished production, angry and mortified, ...]
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Stories Of Lough Guir
[english | 1870]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... Lough Guir When the present writer was a boy of twelve or thirteen, he first made the acquaintance of Miss Anne Baily, of Lough Guir, in the county ...... of confectioners. It was engraved round the rim with the words, The glorious, pious, and immortal memory and on grand occasions, was filled to the ...... the good people, Lough Guir is conjectured to be the place of its unearthly ...]
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The Child That Went With The Fairies
[english | 1870]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... Limerick, about ten Irish miles under the range of mountains known as the Slieveelim hills, famous as having afforded Sarsfield a shelter among their ...... ash-trees, stood, not many years ago, the little thatched cabin of a widow named Mary Ryan. Poor was this widow in a land of poverty. The thatch had acquired ...... rose not half a mile away, looking like an outwork of the long ...]
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The Drunkards Dream
[english | 1838]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... strange coincidence,' to use a phrase By which such things are settled now-a-days. BYRON. Dreams-What age, or what country of the world has not felt ...... been unequivocal. My thoughts were directed to this subject, in a manner to leave a lasting impression upon my mind, by the events which I shall now ...... to me but, however fruitless my visits and advice might have been at ...]
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The Evil Guest
[english | 1851]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... but two letters???one addressed to Mademoiselle de Barras, chez M. Marston, and the other to himself. He took them both, dismissed the messenger, and ...... at that gentle lady, might have seen, for one dreamy moment, a lithe and painted serpent, coiled round and round, and hissing in her ear. A few minutes ...... to his guest to accompany him but in a tone which showed that he ...]
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The Familiar
[english | 1872]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Summary: [Familiar Spirits is a memoir published in 2000 by American writer Alison Lurie. In it she recounts a friendship with poet James Merrill and his life partner David Jackson which began in the 1950s. Merrill and Jackson were both wealthy well-educated men who lived an openly gay life decades before that was common. Together the two men spent many years gathering Ouija board messages during seances a ...]
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The Ghost And The Bone Setter
[english | 1838]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... of old local traditions-a commodity in which the quarter where he resided mightily abounded. The collection and arrangement of such legends was, as long ...... each endeavouring to secure to his own dead priority of sepulture, and a consequent immunity from the tax levied upon the pedestrian powers of the ...... threw the coffin over the wall, lest time should be lost in making ...]
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The Haunted Baronet
[english | 1871]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... she would na budge. And there was two wee barns and she prayed him hard to confess the marriage, poor thing! But t'was a bootlese bene, and he would ...... marked character of shrinking and timidity. He thanked the landlord aside, as it were, and took his seat with a furtive glance round, as if he had no ...... reasonable distance? Golden Friars is the nearest, said Mrs. Bedel, ...]
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The House By The Church Yard
[english | 1863]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... But wishes are as vain as regrets so I'll just do my best, bespeaking your attention, and submissively abiding your judgment. The ...... is, my Lord Castlemallard, a curious old tract of the learned Van Helmont, in which he says, as near as I can remember his words, that ...... and I was the only officer in the regiment, when we were at Athlone, that was prevented going to the race ...]
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The Mysterious Lodger
[english | 1850]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... readers perfectly well know), of the renowned city of London. Though this house was roomy and comfortable, as I have said, it was not, by any ...... I can't say which, against the bank of the green lane I suppose to rest himself, for he seems very weak, poor gentleman! And how did you happen to ...... crutch, waistcoat, and all had disappeared. I climbed to the top of the wall, and ...]
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