\'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...\' Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Poe and M.
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Aaron Worth\'s introduction discusses the paranoid, claustrophobic world of Le Fanu\'s fiction as a counterpoint-one in its own way equally modern-to the cosmic horror tale as practiced by such writers as H.
This landmark critical edition includes the original versions of all five Stories later collected in the superb In a Glass Darkly , along with seven equally chilling tales spanning the length of Le Fanu\'s career, from \'Schalken the Painter\', a pioneering story of the walking dead, to \'Laura Silver Bell\', a haunting exploration of the dark side of fairy lore.
James to remark, \'he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any Other writer\'.
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Tales such as \'Carmilla\' and \'Green Tea\' prompted M.
While a number of his sensation and mystery novels were popular with mid-Victorian readers, it was in shorter forms that he truly excelled, and most showed himself an innovator in the field of uncanny fiction.
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R. \'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...\' Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Poe and M
