Sheridan: 654 books

Regarded as the Victorian era's greatest writer of ghost stories, J. Sheridan LeFanu (1814-73) gave expression to the fears and dread that often haunt sensitive individuals. This collection contains four of his finest ghost stories, each crafted with remarkable ingenuity and storytelling skill. The title...

Guillermo Sheridan realiza un trabajo de reconstrucción literario-histórica del surgimiento, desarrollo y apogeo del grupo literario de los Contemporáneos, entre quienes destacan Xavier Villaurrutia, Carlos Pellicer, Gilberto Owen, Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano y José Gorostiza.

Guillermo Sheridan analiza la polémica literaria que se dio en México en 1932, entre el grupo de Contemporáneos y su mentor Alfonso Reyes, entre otros escritores empeñados en la formación de una literatura que dialogara con la producida por el Occidente moderno, y el grupo encabezado por Ermilo...

James Sheridan Knowles was born at Cork in 1784, and died at Torquay in December, 1862, at the age of 78. His father was a teacher of elocution, who compiled a dictionary, and who was related to the Sheridans. He moved to London when his son was eight years old, and there became acquainted with William...

Fans of Victorian pulp literature are in for a treat with Volume 5 of Penny Dreadful Multipacks. The theme is True Crime with excerpts from the widely read Newgate Calendar, a rogue’s gallery of London criminals; an anonymous novella exploring the Spring Heeled Jack phenomenon; Carmilla...

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. Also this story predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. ...

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,...

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...

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,...

Regarded by many as the unsurpassed master of the Victorian ghost story, Sheridan Le Fanu combines keen insight into the culture of his native Ireland with tried and true conventions of the genre. This volume contains two of Le Fanu's novellas, A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family and The Murdered Cousin, both of which unfold against the backdrop of large, insular, eccentric Irish families.

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction. It was first published in 1871 as a serial narrative in The Dark Blue. It tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named...

'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...

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” J. Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla (1872) is a classic vampire story and probably the first great novel of the genre. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Today, critics point to the work of Victorian-era horror author J. Sheridan Le Fanu as the pinnacle of suspense writing in the period. With a few subtle turns of phrase, Le Fanu can provoke a response of sheer terror in the minds of readers, working in the same vein that his American contemporary Edgar...