Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 55 min read

A painter's ghastly bargain, a haunted house on Aungier Street, early masterworks of terror, including the celebrated 'Schalken the Painter.'

This first volume of Sheridan Le Fanu's ghostly tales gathers foundational Victorian horror from one of the genre's greatest architects. Subtle, chilling, superbly crafted. Read it for early tales of the uncanny from a master whose ghost stories shaped everything that followed.

In its time

Published in 1851, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

55 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).