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The Tiled House: Tales of Terror by J. S. Le Fanu (Collins Chillers)

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Tiled House: Tales of Terror by J. S. Le Fanu (Collins Chillers)

Contributors:

By (Author) J.S. Le Fanu
Introduction by Michael Cox

ISBN:

9780008283117

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint:

HarperCollins

Publication Date:

18th October 2019

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Classic fiction: general and literary
Short stories

Dewey:

823.8

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

320

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm

Weight:

230g

Description

The very best of Le Fanus supernatural fiction, including such classics as: Schalken the Painter, Squire Toby's Will, Mr Justice Harbottle, The Familiar, Green Tea, Madam Crowls Ghost and The Murdered Cousin, introduced by genre expert Michael Cox.
Sheridan Le Fanu, wrote S.M. Ellis in 1916, retains his own special place and fame as the Master of Horror and the Mysterious.

Today, Le Fanus reputation is as high as ever amongst connoisseurs of supernatural and mystery fiction and well deserves the enthusiastic praise lavished on him by some of the most accomplished ghost fiction writers of the twentieth century including E.F. Benson and M.R. James.

Born in 1814, the son of an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, Le Fanu single-handedly created a new kind of fictional ghost story. Gone are the sheeted spooks rattling rusty chains and the peripatetic headless ladies that infest Gothic fiction. In their place Le Fanu created formidably real supernatural presences that emerge from within, as well as invade from without.

Le Fanu was the first writer to explore seriously the psychological dimensions of the ghost story; at the same time he was adept at invoking the physical presence of supernatural malevolence. The world in which his characters move is a hostile one, his stories surrounded by an infinity of outer darkness. Private anguish undoubtedly underlies these public fictions.

And yet Le Fanus stories be they of ghosts or tales of mystery are also of the good old-fashioned type, best enjoyed in the sort of setting he himself described the old-fashioned parlour fire-side and its listening circle of excited faces, and, outside, the wintry blast and the moan of leafless boughs . . .

Reviews

Le Fanu stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories. That is my deliberate verdict. M.R. James

There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight. Henry James

Author Bio

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Three of his best-known novels are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.

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