... 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 another time, the present was too fearful an occasion to suffer my doubts ...
... the uneven pavement of the main street. After a walk of about five minutes she turned off into a narrow lane, of that obscure and comfortless class ...
... distinctly the hurried talking of many voices. I could also distinguish the low sobbing of a female. On arriving upon the uppermost lobby, these sounds ...
... light was nearly approximated to, and fell with horrible clearness upon, the blue and swollen features of the drunkard. I did not think it possible that ...
... of death, never seen before. When the first tumult of uncontrollable sorrow had passed away, availing myself of the solemnity and impressiveness of the scene, ...
... my senses. As it was, however, the spell was broken, superstition gave way to reason: the man whom all believed to have been actually dead, was ...
... and yet it seemed, in some degree, to partake of the properties of all-it was strange, but stranger things are coming. During two or three ...
... raising himself, he exclaimed with startling vehemence-Look, sir, there is no use in mincing the matter I'm blasted with the fires of hell I have ...
... of rushing, trembling sound, and I perceived that they shone on the ribs of a great roof of rock that was arched overhead instead of the sky. When I seen ...
... the man that was sitting at my left hand, only smiled, and said, 'sit down again, you can never leave this place,' and his voice was weaker than any ...
... of the groundlessness of his fears, and however strong my scepticism respecting the reality of what he had described, I nevertheless felt that his impression ...
... nailing down some planks upon the landing place, through which, at the commencement of his mysterious vision, it seemed to him that he had sunk. I perceived at ...
... that shall be told quickly. I had one evening met Pat Connell, as he returned from his work, and as usual, after a mutual, and on his side respectful salutation, ...
... profligacy but amid all this reformation and compunction, who can tell the moment in which the base and ruinous propensity may not recur, triumphing ...
... ponderous body had been hurled down the stair. Much alarmed, she started up, and going to the head of the staircase, she called repeatedly upon her husband, ...
... Fanu Dickon the Devil Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Schalken the Painter Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton Joseph ...
... successful novelist. Within a year of his birth his family moved to the Royal Hibernian Military School in Phoenix Park, where his father, an Anglican ...
... named after him. Source: Wikipedia You can also find on Amazon Le Fanu: A Stable for Nightmares (1896) Carmilla (1871) Uncle Silas (1864) The Child ...