Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Mysterious and Horrific Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

LARGE PRINT EDITION. A nobleman strikes an agreement he will soon regret. A drunk man receives a startling vision of life after death. A struggling painter's apprentice falls in love with his master's niece, only to see her given in marriage to an older, wealthier man. Mysterious and Horrific Stories is a collection of Gothic tales by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 856
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1120g
• ISBN-13: 9781513137308
• ISBN-10: 1513137301
• Artikelnr.: 65197378

Autorenporträt

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic horror. Born in Dublin, Le Fanu was raised in a literary family. His mother, a biographer, and his father, a clergyman, encouraged his intellectual development from a young age. He began writing poetry at fifteen and went on to excel at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied law and served as Auditor of the College Historical Society. In 1838, shortly before he was called to the bar, he began contributing ghost stories to the Dublin University Magazine, of which he later became editor and proprietor. He embarked on a career as a writer and journalist, using his role at the magazine as a means of publishing his own fictional work. Le Fanu made a name for himself as a pioneer of mystery and Gothic horror with such novels as The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864). Carmilla (1872), a novella, is considered an early work of vampire fiction and an important influence for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).