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The House by the Churchyard (Hardcover)
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The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound
influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century,
Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (18141873) has,
sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so.
To this day, contemporary readers who happen across his works
praise his talent for weaving a tense literary atmosphere tinged by
the supernatural and bolstered by hints of ambiguous magic. Though
his best-known works were horror tales, Le Fanus first novels were
historical in nature. The House by the Churchyard, originally
published in 1863, bridges the authors early work and his later
experiments in Gothic horror, and is said to have inspired James
Joyces Finnegans Wake. A rambling tale of the charming Irish town
of Chapelizod in 1767, it sees men of the Royal Irish Artillery
stationed in the village and disrupting the quiet life there...
though the brooding Mr. Mervyn and his coffin and the mysterious
newcomer Mr. Dangerfield lend elements of the unknown as well. With
a series of new editions of Le Fanus works, Cosimo is proud to
reintroduce modern book lovers to the writings of the early master
of suspense fiction who pioneered the concept of psychological
horror.
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