The House by the Churchyard
The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century, Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (1814-1873) has, sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so. To this day, contemporary readers who happen across his works praise his talent for weaving a tense literary atmosphere tinged by the supernatural and bolstered by hints of ambiguous magic. Though his best-known works were horror tales, Le Fanu's first novels were historical in nature. The House by the Churchyard, originally published in 1863, bridges the auth…
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Weitere Autoren: Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
- ISBN: 978-1-60520-342-3
- EAN: 9781605203423
- Produktnummer: 4204808
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 504 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D3.2 cm 813 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 813
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a 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.
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