'the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as 'The Invisible Prince' because of his reclusive and nocturnal habits, Le Fanu was fascinated by the occult. His w[...]

"Carmilla" is the book that set the text for "Dracula," that threw the light on our morbid fascination with the vampire legend. This is "Carmilla," J. Sheridan LeFanu's classic novel of blood, terror -- and a love that dare not speak its name.[...]

Gothic Classics presents Ann Radcliffe's archetypal gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udopho", adapted by Antonella Caputo and Carlo Vergara. This book also contains: Jane Austen's gothic parody "Northanger Abbey" by Trina Robbins and Anne Timmons; Poe's "The Oval Portrait" by Malaysian illustrator Leo[...]

I thought I saw a human face, about the most terrible my fancy could have called up, looking fixedly into the room. The face gazed towards the bed, and in the imperfect light looked like a livid mask, with chalky eyes'. Master of the ghost story genre M.R. James commented that the, 'final terrific m[...]

The world's greatest ghost stories emanate from the British Isles - the superb, donnish tales of M.R. James and those of the wilder and more exotic Celtic imaginations of such writers as Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker - and they are brought together in this handsome boxed set. It includes Charles [...]

Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, journalism and a verse-drama. While [...]