Le Fanu: 298 books

Book cover of A Gathering Darkness

A Gathering Darkness

Thirteen Classic English Ghost Stories

by DH Lawrence, John Kendrick Bangs, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016

Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall. Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland,...
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Why Us?

How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves

by James Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

In this daring treatise on the current state of scientific inquiry, James Le Fanu challenges the common assumption that further progress in genetic research and neuroscience must ultimately explain all there is to know about life and man’s place in the world. On the contrary, he argues, the most...
Book cover of Schalken the Painter (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century, and he is now seen as central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. His work is credited with turning the Gothic's focus from the external sources of horror to the inward effects of terror, thus helping...
Book cover of Complete Horror Gothic Ghostly Mysteries
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, J. S. Le Fanu's
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014

An Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Three of his best known works are Uncle Silas, "Carmilla" and The House by the Churchyard. Contents An...
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Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria

Karnstein Chronicles

by David Brian, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015

If to love is the dream, then to awaken is a nightmare...  When fate draws together the lives of two young women, their mutual attraction quickly flourishes into a bond which threatens the boundaries of social etiquette in 1860's Styria. As their relationship continues to develop further,...
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Carmilla & True Story Of A Vampire

Two Homoerotic Vampire Classics

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

Carmilla (1872) remains the most famous, and original, lesbian vampire story of them all. Set in the shadowlands of old Styria, J. Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic-horror classic tells of the strange lust and symbiosis between an innocent young girl and Carmilla, the archetypal "fatal woman” and sexual...
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Carmilla

Bestsellers and famous Books

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

This Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years, first published as a serial in The Dark Blue, the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla,...
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Carmilla

A Critical Edition

by Joseph Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

Costello-Sullivan has compiled a student-friendly version of Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 vampire tale, "Carmilla." This critical edition includes an introduction by the editor, a timeline, a short biographical sketch of the author, a selected bibliography, and four original, scholar-authored essays...
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Carmilla

The Vampire

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019

'Carmilla' is a horror story by the Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu from 1872 and one of the early works of vampire literature - it preceded Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (1897) by 26 years. The title character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire who wishes to live out her romantic desires...
Book cover of Vampire Classics (Illustrated)

Vampire Classics (Illustrated)

A Horror Collection Including Dracula, Dracula’s Guest, The Vampyre, Varney the Vampire, Carmilla, Lilith, The Blood of the Vampire, and La Morte Amoreuse

by Bram Stoker, John William Polidori, Thomas Preskett Prest
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018

Vampires...fearful undead creatures of myths and legends, supernatural terrors from our darkest nightmares, the inspiration for so many tales of tragedy and horror. Explore the birth of vampires and their evolution in Vampire Classics. Vampire Classics brings together many classic tales...
Book cover of The Room In The Dragon Volant
by Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Stunningly effervescent the book encapsulates moral corruption in the society. Le Fanu has lucratively embellished the story with terror and suspense. Its remarkable poetic sense delicate language and incidents give these tales quite a distinguished place among works of sensational fiction. Absolutely worth reading!
Book cover of Carmilla (Mobi Classics)
by Le Fanu,Joseph Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872 it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years and has been adapted many times for cinema. - Excerpted from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia.
Book cover of The Room in the Dragon Volant
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic ghost/mystery novel. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (August 28, 1814 February 7, 1873) 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."
Book cover of A Stable for Nightmares
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the foremost writers of ghost stories in the Victorian era, penning such renowned works as Uncle Silas and In a Glass Darkly. This collection of spine-tingling short...
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