J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales: Five Volumes in One

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Contains the following stories. Schalken The Painter (1851) An Account Of Some Strange Disturbances In Aungier Street (1853) The Murdered Cousin An Authentic Narrative Of A Haunted House (1862) Ultor De Lacy: A Legend Of Cappercullen (1861) The Haunted Baronet (1871) The Drunkard's Dream (1838) The Ghost and the Bone-setter (1838) The Mysterious Lodger (1850) Laura Silver Bell (1872) Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling (1869) The Child That Went With The Fairies (1870) Stories Of Lough Guir (1870) The Vision Of Tom Chuff (1870) Dickon The Devil (1872)

Genres: Horror, Short Stories

332 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1983

About the author

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was 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 Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.

Reviews

[Jackie Davenport · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Shanice · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this collection of classic ghost stories. The tales are eerie and mysterious. It did get a little hard to read at points where Le Fanu wrote characters with heavy accents, however.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a pretty interesting collection of stories. They are mild and more like mind teasers. The descriptions were good, I got a good idea of the houses and the outlaying areas. I like short chapters and this book gave me that. While these stories are kind of off the wall and odd I would let my ten year old read it. The first stories are based in very old buildings in places already known for being haunted and the stories, which begin by being current, take you back several hundreds of years to explain why the houses are haunted. All in all a good end of the year read.