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. First
published in 1864, Uncle Silas, one of his more famous works, is a
macabre tale of the death-haunted mansion known as Knowl, and Maud
Ruthyn, who narrates for us the ominous goings-on there through her
curtain of obsession with the dark and the dead. Considered by some
to be among the best horror novels ever written, this is certainly
a pinnacle of Victorian suspense that continues to grip
sophisticated readers today. 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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