Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: 2 books

"When Lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth Sin: and Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth Death." ​About sixty years ago, and somewhat more than twenty miles from the ancient town of Chester, in a southward direction, there stood a large, and, even then, an old-fashioned mansion-house....

Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. The cause was a very trifling scratch inflicted...