Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are the locked-room mystery Uncle Silas, the vampire novella Carmilla, and the historical novel The House by the Churchyard.
Wylder's Hand
Amidst the backdrop of family legacies and pending nuptials, a journey unveils a web of inheritances, secrets, and brewing conflicts.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
A young woman named Laura becomes enthralled by a mysterious and beautiful female vampire named Carmilla, leading to a dark and tragic exploration of love, death, and the supernatural.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Wyvern mystery
A young woman's return to her ancestral home ignites a whirlwind of hidden desires, family secrets, and a looming mystery that threatens to consume everything she holds dear.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Purcell Papers — Volume 1
Venture into a world where ancient Irish folklore meets bone-chilling mysteries, all told through captivating tales of ghosts, superstitions, and the shadows that lurk just beyond the veil of reality.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Tenants of Malory, Volume 1
In a quaint Welsh town, an alluring mystery unfolds as a young man becomes spellbound by a beautiful stranger from the long-abandoned manor.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
In a world where the line between life and the supernatural blurs, a mysterious old woman and a dead sexton bring ghostly suspense and haunting moral lessons.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Evil Guest
A mysterious and beautiful French governess arrives at the old mansion of Gray Forest, setting off a chain of events that threatens to destroy the lives of the Marston family forever.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Checkmate
** A mysterious gentleman's arrival at a grand estate stirs up love, jealousy, and suspicion, threatening to unravel the lives of those within its walls when secrets and desires collide.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The House by the Church-Yard
In a quaint village shadowed by secrets, the unearthing of a skull ignites a series of mysterious events, intertwining the lives of its inhabitants with the arrival of a stranger.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Room in the Dragon Volant
A young gentleman's European vacation turns treacherous when he becomes entranced by a mysterious woman linked to dark secrets.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Guy Deverell, v. 2 of 2
When a mysterious red box surfaces a mother desperately searches for her missing son, while dark secrets and a villainous figure lurk in the shadows.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin
In a world where family secrets, loss, and ghostly apparitions collide, the line between the natural and supernatural blurs, revealing the unsettling truths buried within a family's dark past.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Cock and Anchor
In a city teeming with political turmoil, a young gentleman's quest for safety leads him into a web of secret identities, risky alliances, and a past that refuses to stay buried.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Willing to Die: A Novel
In a world of secrets and haunting memories, a woman's life takes a dramatic turn with the arrival of strangers who threaten to unravel her carefully constructed world.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Guy Deverell, v. 1 of 2
When a baronet encounters a striking stranger who resurrects long-forgotten family secrets and supernatural fears, he must the past to light before it destroys him.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Watcher, and other weird stories
A brave officer's life turns upside down when he's haunted by a mysterious presence and receives ominous warnings from his past.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
In a secluded estate filled with secrets, a young woman must confront a mysterious uncle and the dark past that threatens to consume her.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Purcell Papers — Volume 3
In a world of Irish folklore, love, loss, and the supernatural intertwine when a tempestuous marriage leads to mistaken identities and quick remarriage in a rural landscape.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Tenants of Malory, Volume 3
In a world of secrets and hidden affections, a man's nighttime adventure pulls him into a web of romance and mystery involving suspicious women and tangled relationships.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
In a world where reality and the spectral blur, a young girl's fate hangs in the balance, entwined with omens, witchcraft, and a man shrouded in darkness.
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu