Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 2 hr 9 min read

Ghosts, family curses, and dark Irish legends fill this second volume of the early tales of a master of the Victorian ghost story.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1880 collection gathers his early supernatural and Gothic tales. Atmospheric, dread-soaked, superbly told. Read it for the apprentice work of one of the greatest ghost-story writers who ever lived, moody Irish legends and hauntings that presage the mastery of 'Carmilla' and 'Uncle Silas.'

In its time

Published in 1880, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

2 hr 9 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).