Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1 hr 29 min read

A chapter in the dark history of a Tyrone family, and the tale of a murdered cousin, two chilling stories of doom, inheritance, and the supernatural from a master of the ghostly.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu's stories (1836 and 1851) are early classics of the Gothic ghost tale. Eerie, atmospheric, superbly told. Read it for two fine tales from the great Irish master of the weird, including 'The Murdered Cousin,' the seed of his celebrated novel Uncle Silas, brooding stories of family curses and menace that helped shape the whole tradition of the English ghost story.

In its time

Published in 1836, during the 1830s, poe and the german romantics.

Reading it

1 hr 29 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).