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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Author profile
born
in Dublin, Ireland, The United Kingdom
August 28, 1814
died
February 07, 1873
gender
male
genre
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Carmilla
— published 1871 — 118 editions |
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Uncle Silas
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Victor Sage — published 1864 — 67 editions |
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In a Glass Darkly
— published 1872 — 3 editions |
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Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories
— published 1923 — 4 editions |
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Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories
— published 1945 — 4 editions |
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The House by the Churchyard
— published 1863 — 26 editions |
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The Evil Guest
— published 1895 — 25 editions |
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The Wyvern Mystery
— published 1869 — 11 editions |
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Green Tea
— 4 editions |
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Carmilla and Other Tales of Mystery: And 12 Other Classic Tales of Mystery
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Leonard Wolf |
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“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
“She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur with her lips near my ear, “Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”
And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek.
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― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek.
”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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