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The Tiled House - Tales of Terror by J. S. Le Fanu (Paperback)
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The Tiled House - Tales of Terror by J. S. Le Fanu (Paperback)
Series: Collins Chillers
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The very best of Le Fanu's supernatural fiction, including such
classics as: 'Schalken the Painter', 'Squire Toby's Will', 'Mr
Justice Harbottle', 'The Familiar', 'Green Tea', 'Madam Crowl's
Ghost' and 'The Murdered Cousin', introduced by genre expert
Michael Cox. 'Sheridan Le Fanu,' wrote S.M. Ellis in 1916, 'retains
his own special place and fame as the Master of Horror and the
Mysterious.' Today, Le Fanu's reputation is as high as ever amongst
connoisseurs of supernatural and mystery fiction and well deserves
the enthusiastic praise lavished on him by some of the most
accomplished ghost fiction writers of the twentieth century -
including E.F. Benson and M.R. James. Born in 1814, the son of an
Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, Le Fanu single-handedly created a
new kind of fictional ghost story. Gone are the sheeted spooks
rattling rusty chains and the peripatetic headless ladies that
infest Gothic fiction. In their place Le Fanu created formidably
real supernatural presences that emerge from within, as well as
invade from without. Le Fanu was the first writer to explore
seriously the psychological dimensions of the ghost story; at the
same time he was adept at invoking the physical presence of
supernatural malevolence. The world in which his characters move is
a hostile one, his stories surrounded by an infinity of outer
darkness. Private anguish undoubtedly underlies these public
fictions. And yet Le Fanu's stories - be they of ghosts or tales of
mystery - are also of the good old-fashioned type, best enjoyed in
the sort of setting he himself described - 'the old-fashioned
parlour fire-side and its listening circle of excited faces, and,
outside, the wintry blast and the moan of leafless boughs . . .'
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