The complete online text of The Evil Guest 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...

Byline: Eric Frydenlund For children of the cold war, evil seemed large and menacing, clearly visible in the wake of evildoers. Sputnik flew over our heads like a sinister home run hit from across the ocean. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounded...

Byline: Paul Boyer WASHINTON -- President George W. Bush today announced that the United States now confronts not just an Axis of Evil, composed of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, but a Quadrilateral of Evil. The President acted in response to...