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Download * Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu PDF by # J. Sheridan Le Fanu eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu Not your standard ghostly fare Probably the most distinguishing characteristic of LeFanu's writing to me is that he doesn't explain why something is happening in his stories. Ghosts search through drawers, skeletons are dug up, heroes disappear, and barons die of unseen causes, and we are never told what happened. LeFanu doesn't necessarily explain the motives and occurrences of his stories and loose ends are not all tied up. At first, I was unsure about what to think; what kind of ghost story d
| Title | : | Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486204154 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
Le Fanu is a Victorian writer who, along with Edgar A. Jack Sullivan, in Horror Literature, maintains that "Le Fanu was more revolutionary than Poe, for he began the process of dismantling the Gothic props and placing the supernatural tale in everyday settings." These quietly elegant tales include a female vampire who predates Dracula, a vicar troubled by a spectral monkey, a cruel hanging judge who gets his due and many other fine portents and hauntings. . Poe before him, invented the unity of mood and economy of means that characterizes the modern horror short story
Not your standard ghostly fare Probably the most distinguishing characteristic of LeFanu's writing to me is that he doesn't explain why something is happening in his stories. Ghosts search through drawers, skeletons are dug up, heroes disappear, and barons die of unseen causes, and we are never told what happened. LeFanu doesn't necessarily explain the motives and occurrences of his stories and loose ends are not all tied up. At first, I was unsure about what to think; what kind of ghost story doesn't explain all the events at the end? How am I supposed to be terrifi. "Four Stars" according to Amy Patterson. Enoyed the book.. Come Meet the Master Anne Rice This handsome Dover edition of Le Fanu's stories has been in print for over 45 years, and during that time I have bought and pored over many a copy of it. Le Fanu writes beautifully. His prose at its best, like that of Algenon Blackwood, is as evocative and timeless as that of Charles Dickens. The stories are powerful and haunting. I have spent countless hours enjoying Le Fanu and studying his techniques for so subtly and beautifully describing his characters and their responses to the mysterious world around them. His small masterpiece
There is, for example, the magnificent nouvelle "The Haunted Baronet," (reprinted for the first time from the fabulously rare "Chronicles of Golden Friars," which survives in perhaps less than a dozen sets), material from "The Purcell Papers," the practically unknown essay-story "An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House," and nine other first-rate stories.. S. R. P. A few of his better stories have appeared often enough in anthologies, but much of his very best work has lain hidden, because of its inaccessibility. James. And although he was Victorian in his dates, he was in many respects un-Victorian in his writing: his ideas looked both backward to the great supernatural tradition of Romantic fiction and forward to the modern age.LeFanu's work, unfortunately, has not been as well known generally as it should be. Lovecraft, Henry James and M. More imaginative and more perceptive than his contemporaries who worked in the same form, he achieved depths and dimensions of terror that still remain otherwise unexplored. His contemporaries were more interested in his detective novels (including t
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