The complete online text of J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 by Sheridan Le Fanu.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu wrote fifteen novels, ranging from historical romances to mysteries, as well as essays, poetry, patriotic ballads, sentimental lyrics, and journalistic pieces. Yet it is largely for his more than forty short stories--often stories...

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's contribution to supernatural horror fiction is signally important because he was virtually the first writer to produce ghost stories in Britain. Emerging shortly after the heyday of the Gothic novel, Le Fanu's work offered a muc...

During his lifetime Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a moderately successful novelist in terms of both critical acclaim and the sales of his books. After his death his reputation slid into the typical decline, and only two or three of his novels remained in p...

"Waking the Dead" is a worthy attempt to mesh a love story, a ghost story, and a dip into the politics of the heady '70s and pragmatic '80s. But it's too fragmented and diffuse to ever bring its parts together in any really satisfying...