Checkmate

Checkmate

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/08/2016

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu, 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. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.

ISBN:
9783736405882
9783736405882
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-08-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
anboco
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of gothic tales, mystery novels and ghost stories, most famous for his novel Uncle Silas. Carmilla was first published in 1872 and has served as an inspiration countless books, from Bram Stoker's Dracula and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, and a slew of films such as Hammer Horror's Karnstein Trilogy.

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