1. The Curmudgeon: J Sheridan Le Fanu J Sheridan Le Fanu. A digression by the International Rooksbyist puts me in mind of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, to whose ghost stories I shall soon, http://thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2006/02/j-sheridan-le-fanu.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=6596790"); The Curmudgeon You'll come for the curses. You'll stay for the mudgeonry. Friday, February 24, 2006 J Sheridan Le Fanu A digression by the International Rooksbyist puts me in mind of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, to whose ghost stories I shall soon, once again, have to return. I first heard of Le Fanu because someone mentioned him on the radio. I don't know what the context was (it's possible they were trying to revive the novels, which seems to happen every now and then), but I was inspired to pick up a second-hand Sphere paperback called unimaginatively The Best Horror Stories. Besides the usual foreword by someone I had never heard of (one Alexis Lykiard), it contained four stories, all by Le Fanu; and I quickly found that the title was no overstatement. The story remains one of the most horrible things I have ever read; and none the less so for Le Fanu's elegance of diction and subtlety of touch. It offers no explanations, no exorcism, no punishment for the venal guardian, no redemption for the innocent Rose, no moral order whatever. Le Fanu died in 1873, and "Schalken the Painter" is not a late story; what the mid-Victorians must have thought of it, I cannot imagine. is fancy; you are your own tormentor." The idea of a vicar who doesn't believe in the supernatural has since been used by Kingsley Amis in

2. Sheridan Le Fanu Biography of the Victorian writer known for his horror and suspense stories. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lefanu.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) Irish journalist, novelists, and short story writer, called the father of the modern ghost story. Although Le Fanu was one of the most popular writers of the Victorian era, he is not so widely read anymore. Le Fanu's best-known works include Uncle Silas (1864), a suspense story, and The House by the Churchyard (1863), a murder mystery. His vampire story 'Carmilla,' which influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula , has been filmed several times. "Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvelous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener." (from 'An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street', 1853) Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin into a wealthy family of Huguenot origins. Among his forebears was the playwright Richard Brinsley. His father, Thomas Philip Le Fanu, was a clergyman. Le Fanu started to write poems in his childhood. The life of the peasantry became familiar to him when his family moved to Abington, in County Limerick. In 1833 Le Fanu entered Trinity College, where he read law and graduated in 1837. L Fanu's first story, 'The Ghost and the Bone-Setter', appeared in the

3. Sheridan Le Fanu - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Joseph sheridan le fanu (August 28, 1814 – February 7, 1873) was an AngloIrish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_Le_Fanu

Sheridan Le Fanu From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Le Fanu Born 28 August Dublin Ireland Died 7 February Dublin Ireland Occupation ... mystery Influences Sir Walter Scott Ann Radcliffe Samuel Warren Emanuel Swedenborg ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Influenced James Joyce Charles Dickens Bram Stoker Henry James ... Charlotte Bronte Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu August 28 February 7 ) was an Anglo-Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era. Contents Biography His work The Purcell Papers Spalatro ... edit Biography Sheridan Le Fanu was born at No. 45 Lower Dominick Steet, Dublin , into a literary family of Huguenot origins. Both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights. His niece Rhoda Broughton would become a very successful novelist. Within a year of his birth his family moved to the Royal Hibernian Military School in Phoenix Park , where his father, an Anglican clergyman, was the chaplain of the establishment. Phoenix Park and the adjacent village and parish church of

4. J. Sheridan Le Fanu:  A Database A bibliography of writings about J. sheridan le fanu. http://www.jslefanu.com/

J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A Database Compiled by Gary William Crawford This website is an ongoing bibliography of works about famous Victorian writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) that supplements my book J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995). Comments and input may be sent to gothicpt12@aol.com . Books and articles may be sent to me at Gothic Press, 2272 Quail Oak, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-9023, U.S.A. Thanks go to Cindy Eastwood and the interlibrary loan staff of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library for obtaining a number of items from other libraries. Thanks also go to the reference staff of the Louisiana State University Library. The Gothic Press website is www.gothicpress.com . Last updated 23 January 2008.. Internet Articles Corrections and Additions Reference Book Articles Dissertations ... LE FANU STUDIES

5. J Sheridan Le Fanu A bibliography of J sheridan le fanu s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/j-sheridan-le-fanu/

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6. The Literary Gothic | Joseph Sheridan LeFanu Joseph sheridan le fanu page at The Literary Gothic, the web s premier guide to Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to 1950. http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/lefanu.html

LeFanu, Joseph Sheridan 28 August 1814 - 7 February 1873 Irish writer and magazine editor (last name sometimes written Le Fanu), well-known for his supernaturalist and mystery fiction (famous examples of the latter being Uncle Silas and The Rose and the Key . One of the major figures of C19 supernaturalism, LeFanu helped move supernaturalist fiction away from the Gothic's emphasis on external sources of terror and toward a focus on the effects of terror, thus helping to create the psychological basis for supernaturalist and horror lit that continues today. Sites: Joseph Sheridan LeFanu Includes links, chronology, and etexts. [Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya U] Biographical note [Authors Calendar] Brief biographical note [Wikipedia] Joseph Sheridan LeFanu site Follow in LeFanu's footsteps... Brief biographical note [Judy Edmonds] Brief biographical note [nationmaster.com] Brief biographical note [Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby] Brief biographical note [Gothic Labyrinth] "A Memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu" by Alfred Perceval Graves From an early (unspecified) edition of The Purcell Papers . [U Adelaide Library] Brief biographical note [John W. Cousins

7. CARMILLA By J. Sheridan LeFanu Full text of the 1872 vampire novella by le fanu. HTML. Two versions all in one file; or each chapter in its own file, with links to previous and next. http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/l_carmil.htm

CARMILLA by J. Sheridan LeFanu PROLOGUE Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates. This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and condensation. It will form but one volume of the series of that extraordinary man’s collected papers. As I publish the case, in this volume, simply to interest the “laity,” I shall forestall the intelligent lady, who relates it, in nothing; and after due consideration, I have determined, therefore, to abstain from presenting any precis of the learned Doctor’s reasoning, or extract from his statement on a subject which he describes as “involving, not improbably, some of the profoundest arcana of our dual existence, and its intermediates.” I was anxious on discovering this paper, to reopen the correspondence commenced by Doctor Hesselius, so many years before, with a person so clever and careful as his informant seems to have been. Much to my regret, however, I found that she had died in the interval. She, probably, could have added little to the Narrative which she communicates in the following pages, with, so far as I can pronounce, such conscientious particularity.

8. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) J. sheridan le fanu A BioBibliography (Gary William Crawford) This is taken from Ivan Melada, sheridan le fanu (Boston Twayne Publishers, 1987) http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Fanu.html

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Related Web Sites The Literary Gothic: LeFanu, Joseph Sheridan A Hyper-Concordance to the Works of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Infography about Le Fanu, Sheridan The Victorian Web ... Gaslight's Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu page : Haunted Lives (1868) Britannica.com Carmilla, by Le Fanu Short Stories "Sir Dominick's Bargain: A Legend of Dunoran" "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street" "Schalken the Painter" The Purcell Papers [ Vol #1 Vol #2 Vol #3 smeralda.com: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Books J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A Bio-Bibliography (Gary William Crawford) In a Glass Darkly Ghost Stories and Mysteries Uncle Silas Carmilla and Other Tales of Mystery ... Checkmate Chronology Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu born 28 August to Thomas Philip Le Fanu and Emma Lucretia Dobbin Le Fanu. The family moves to the Phoenix Park west of Dublin following the appointment of Thomas Philip as chaplain to the Royal Hibernian Military School. Upon his appointment as dean of Emly, Thomas Philip moves his family to Abington, County Limerick. Period of the Tithe Wars at the beginning of which the Le Fanu family lives in Abington at the risk of their lives.

9. Joseph Sheridan LeFanu - Biography And Works Joseph sheridan le fanu (181473), The Invisible Prince , Irish journalist and writer, father of the Victorian ghost story. While he is best known for his http://www.online-literature.com/lefanu/

The Literature Network Authors: 260 Books: 2,260 Forum Members: 41,657 Forum Posts: 465,479 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Joseph Sheridan LeFanu Joseph Sheridan LeFanu Search all of Joseph Sheridan LeFanu Advanced Search Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), "The Invisible Prince", Irish journalist and writer, father of the Victorian ghost story. While he is best known for his novel about the "venerable, bloodless, fiery-eyed" uncle, Uncle Silas (1864) it was his vampire novella Carmilla (1872) that would contribute to defining the horror genre and probably influenced Bram Stoker in his writing of Dracula Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born 28 August, 1814 to noble Huguenot parents Thomas Philip Le Fanu, a clergyman, and Emma Lucretia Dobbin Le Fanu. During the first few years of the Tithe Wars the Le Fanu family lived in Abington, county Limerick, at great risk. Exposure to folk superstitions in rural Ireland surely left an impression on Le Fanu at an early age. In 1833 Le Fanu entered Trinity College, Dublin to study law, graduating in 1839. He was called to the bar but never practiced, instead embarking on a career in journalism. He joined the staff of the Dublin University magazine. In 1838 Le Fanu's first story

10. 4 - Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu Read Carmilla, by J. sheridan lefanu. 1 Carmilla - J. sheridan le fanu 11 - Carmilla - J. sheridan le fanu 6 - Carmilla - J. sheridan le fanu http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/jslefanu/bl-jslefanu-carmilla-4.ht

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11. Sheridan Le Fanu aka Till Death Do Us Part (cut version); Twins of Evil (1971) (characters) (as J. sheridan le fanu) aka The Evil Twins (UK) aka The Gemini Twins http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0494257/

Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP SHERIDAN LE... DVD VHS CD IMDb Sheridan Le Fanu Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography publicity contact miscellaneous Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips Sheridan Le Fanu advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Overview Date of Birth: 28 August Dublin, Ireland more Date of Death: 7 February , Dublin, Ireland more Trivia: Was a lucid dreamer who incorporated his dreams into his stories. more Alternate Names: J. Sheridan Le Fanu / J.S. Le Fanu / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Filmography Writer: Vampires vs. Zombies Marcilla (2002) (novel) The Wyvern Mystery (2000) (TV) (novel) (as J.S. Le Fanu)

12. Carmilla, By J. Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla. by. J. sheridan le fanu set of pages is available for download from http//etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/l/lefanu/carmilla/carmilla.zip http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lefanu/carmilla/

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Table of Contents PROLOGUE An Early Fright A Guest We Compare Notes ... Conclusion Rendered into HTML on Sunday December 7 14:54:42 CST 2003, by Steve Thomas for The University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection For offline reading, the complete set of pages is available for download from http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/l/lefanu/carmilla/carmilla.zip The complete work is also available as a single file, at http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/l/lefanu/carmilla/carmilla.html

13. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Welcome to the fantastic world of Joseph sheridan le fanu. You are about to enter a fascinating adventure dealing with the supernatural. http://mural.uv.es/franqui/engmain.html

Main Life Works Carmilla ... Films Welcome to the fantastic world of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. You are about to enter a fascinating adventure dealing with the supernatural. I'll be your host in this amazing journey into your darkest fears. If you dare to go on and read these pages, you'll have to deal with all sorts of malignant creatures. So, if you're easily scared, leave now! You'll find in these pages the life and works of the master of the macabre, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, emphasizing his most celebrated story, Carmilla . You'll also find a list of movies based on Le Fanu's works. Please send comments to franqui@alumni.uv.es

14. HorrorMasters -- Short Stories Joseph sheridan le fanu Billy Malowney s Taste of Love and Glory, Catherine s Quest, The Child That Went With the Fairies. http://www.horrormasters.com/Themes/Horror_Short_Stories_6.htm

Classic Horror Short Stories Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Billy Malowney's Taste of Love and Glory Catherine's Quest The Child That Went With the Fairies The Dead Sexton ... Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling Mark Lemon The Ghost Detective Maurice Level - The Bastard The Beggar Blue Eyes The Confession ... Who? Gaston Leroux In Letters of Fire Eleanor F. Lewis The Vengeance of a Tree Miss Mary Lewis Witchcraft and Wizardry in Wales Matthew Gregory Lewis The Midnight Embrace Jonas Lie The Cormorants of Andvær The Earth Draws Finn Blood The Fisherman and the Draug ... The Wind-Gnome James Lindridge The Episode of the Knights of the Round Table Eliza Lynn Linton The Fate of Madame Cabanel George Lippard A Night in Monk-Hall P. H. Villiers de L’isle Adam The Apparatus for the Chemical Analysis of the Last Breath The Desire to be a Man Occult Memories Véra Jack London All Gold Canyon The Amateur M.D. The League of the Old Men The Leopard Man’s Story ... When the World Was Young F. G. Loring The Tomb of Sarah Samuel Lover King O’Toole and St. Kevin

15. Supernatural Fiction Database, J. Sheridan Le Fanu Tartarus Press Supernatural Fiction Database, J. sheridan le fanu. http://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/users/tartarus/l9.htm

A B C D ... Editors J. SHERIDAN LE FANU b.1814 d.1873 Anglo-Irish writer of mystery, supernatural and historical romances. Novels The House by the Church-Yard , Tinsley, 1863 (3 vols) ditto , Carleton (U.S.), 1866 (1 vol) Wylder's Hand , Bentley, 1864 (3 vols) ditto , Carleton (U.S.), 1865 (1 vol) Uncle Silas , Bentley, 1864 (3 vols) ditto , Harper (New York, 1865 Guy Deverell , Bentley, 1865 (3 vols) ditto, Harper (U.S.), 1866 (1 vol) Short Stories and Collected Editions Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery , McGlashan, Orr, 1851 (anonymous) Chronicles of Golden Friars , Bentley, 1871 (3 vols) In A Glass Darkly , Bentley, 1872 (3 vols) The Purcell Papers , Bentley, 1880 (3 vols) The Watcher , Downey, [1894] Madam Crowl's Ghost , Bell, 1923 (Including: "The Child That Went With the Fairies", "Dickon the Devil", "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod", "Madame Crowl's Ghost", "Sir Dominick's Bargain", "Squire Toby's Will", "Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street", "Stories of Lough Guir", "Ultor de Lacy", "Vision of Tom Chuff", "White Cat of Drumgunniol", "Wicked Captain Walshaw of Wauling".) Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories , Arkham House (U.S.), 1945

16. The Infography About Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) Crawford, Gary William. J. sheridan le fanu A BioBibliography. Greenwood Press, 1995. · McCormack, W.J. sheridan le fanu and Victorian Ireland. http://www.infography.com/content/033329045881.html

Search The Infography: Le Fanu, Sheridan (1814-1873) The following sources are recommended by an expert whose research specialty is the Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu. Six Superlative Sources Begnal, Michael H. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Irish Writers Series, Bucknell University Press, 1971. Browne, Nelson. Sheridan Le Fanu. English Novelists Series, Arthur Barker, 1952. Crawford, Gary William. J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press, 1995. McCormack, W.J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland. Clarendon Press, 1980. Melada, Ivan. Sheridan Le Fanu. Twayne English Authors Series, Twayne, 1987. Sullivan, Jack. Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood. Ohio University Press, 1978. Other Excellent Sources Achilles, Jochen. "Fantasy as Psychological Necessity: Sheridan Le Fanu's Fiction." Gothic Origins and Innovations. Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith, eds. Costerus New Series, Rodopi, 1994: 150-68. Coughlan, Patricia. "Doubles, Shadows, Sedan-Chairs and the Past: The Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu." Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature. Michal Allen and Angela Wilcox, eds. Barnes and Noble, 1989. Gates, Barbara T. "Blue Devils and Green Tea: Le Fanu's Haunted Suicides." Studies in Short Fiction, 24.1 (1987): 15-23.

17. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Also known as Ed. Colin Graham J. sheridan le fanu, Joseph S. le fanu, J. sheridan le fanu, J.S. le fanu, sheridan le fanu, sheridan le fanu; http://www.dk.librarything.com/author/fanujsheridanle

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog From Wikipedia 1 picture add a picture Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Also known as: Ed. Colin Graham J. Sheridan Le Fanu Joseph S. Le Fanu J. Sheridan Le Fanu J.S. Le Fanu ... Joseph Sheridan le Fanu Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu combine/separate works In a glass darkly 212 copies, 2 reviews Uncle Silas; a tale of Bartram-Haugh 198 copies, 2 reviews Best ghost stories of J. S. LeFanu 105 copies, review Carmilla 86 copies, 5 reviews Madam Crowl's ghost and other stories 68 copies, 1 review Green tea and other ghost stories 68 copies, 1 review The Wyvern mystery 39 copies, 1 review Ghost stories and mysteries 34 copies, 3 reviews The rose and the key 29 copies, review The house by the churchyard 22 copies, review Wylder's hand 18 copies, review The Purcell papers 18 copies, review 18 copies, review Checkmate 12 copies, 1 review Guy Deverell 8 copies, review

18. J. Sheridan Le Fanu Biography J. sheridan le fanu biography and related resources. http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Fanu_J_Sheridan_le.html

Biography Base Home Link To Us Search Biographies: Browse Biographies A B C D ... Z J. Sheridan le Fanu Biography Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (August 28, 1814 - February 7, 1873) was an Irish-born writer of short stories and novels concerning the strange and supernatural. His work is an early example of the genre of horror fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin to a noble family. His grandmother Alice Sheridan Le Fanu and her brother, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (J. Sheridan Le Fanu's great-uncle), were both playwrights. His niece, Rhoda Broughton, would become a very successful novelist. Le Fanu studied law at Trinity College in Dublin and passed the bar 1839. But Le Fanu did not take up the legal profession, instead becoming a journalist. Thenceforth until his death he published stories. From 18611869, he edited Dublin University Magazine, which also published many of his works in serial form. He owned several periodicals (including the Dublin University Magazine and the Dublin Evening Mail) in his late life. He died in his native Dublin on February 7, 1873. His Work Le Fanu's plots are well-crafted and vivid, though some find his prose too wordy and his characters frustratingly daft. He specialised in tone and effect rather than shock horror, often following a mystery format. Yet to the delicate sensibility, tales such as the vampire novella Carmilla can be profoundly effective.

19. Carmillia By J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Prologue Carmillia by J. sheridan le fanu the complete text to the original Gothic Vampire Novel. http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/vampire/carmilla/index.html

CARMILLA by J. Sheridan Le Fanu the complete text to the original Gothic Vampire Novel PROLOGUE I II III ... Email PROLOGUE Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS illuminates. This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and condensation. It will form but one volume of the series of that extraordinary man's collected papers. As I publish the case, in these volumes, simply to interest the 'laity', I shall forestall the intelligent lady, who relates it, in nothing; and, after due consideration, I have determined, therefore, to abstain from presenting any precis of the learned Doctor's reasoning, or extract from his statement on a subject which he describes as "involving, not improbably, some of the profoundest arcana of our dual existence, and its intermediates". I was anxious, on discovering this paper, to re-open the correspondence commenced by Doctor Hesselius, so many years before, with a person so clever and careful as his informant seems to have been. Much to my regret, however, I found that she had died in the interval.

20. M.R. James On Le Fanu The speech was entitled The Novels and Stories of J. sheridan le fanu . MRJ s own abstract appeared in Volume XXIV of the Institution s Proceedings, http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/ArchiveLeFanu.html

M.R. James on J.S. Le Fanu by M.R. James (from The following article is adapted from a lecture given by M.R. James at the weekly meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain on March 16th, 1923. The speech was entitled "The Novels and Stories of J. Sheridan Le Fanu". MRJ's own abstract appeared in Volume XXIV of the Institution's Proceedings , and was reprinted in Peter Haining's M.R. James: Book of the Supernatural (Foulsham, 1979). The notes for the lecture are in King's College Library, Cambridge, and were edited into article form for first publication in . For this web site version I have reinstated a few sections which were cut out in Reproduced by kind permission of N.J.R. James. Only one novelist known to me ever refers to Sheridan Le Fanu as an acknowledged authority or master in the particular line to which he devoted himself: the name of this writer is respectable but not more. It is James Payn. Probably if the works of Andrew Lang ever have a concordance made to them, the name of Le Fanu will be found to occur in it. But the fact remains that Le Fanu is not at the moment the occupier of any particular pedestal. There has never been a boom in his writings. I am not anxious for one, though if it comes I shall be prepared to concede the great author of booms, Poet Gosse, several points or bisques. I do not then claim for this author any very exalted place, but I desire to advance the claim that he has attained supremacy in one particular line: he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer. I have heard the proposition advanced that Edgar Allan Poe stands at the head of those who have written

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