Product Description

In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight'. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader. The great M.R. James, who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108232 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Le Fanu = God. It's that simple.
Above James, above Onions, above Aickman, above anyone, Le Fany is the master. The escalation of his tales to the point of crescendo marks the work of a true genious who never ruined his tales by explaining what was going on in them. This collection of tales, handpicked by fellow ghost story maestro M.R. James, features some of his finest stories. Particularly chilling was 'Sir Dominick's Bargain', which has a brilliant and chilling twist that sets the hairs on my back up straight just by thinking of it. Almost 150 years after he's died, no one has yet done the ghost story genre better than J. Sheridan Le Fany. Essential reading.