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Born in 1814, the son of an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, Sheridan Le Fanu single-handedly created a new kind of ghost story. Gone are the sheeted spooks rattling rusty chains and the headless ladies that infest Gothic fiction: in their place he created formidably real supernatural presences that emerge from within or invade from without. Adept at invoking the physical terror of paranormal malevolence, Le Fanu was also the first writer to explore seriously the psychological dimensions of supernatural fiction.
Le Fanu well deserves the enthusiastic praise lavished on him by his contemporaries, and more than a century later his reputation is as high as ever amongst connoisseurs of the ghost story. For the first time in paperback, this selection presents the very best of his supernatural fiction with an illuminating introduction by writer and editor Michael Cox, author or the biography M.R. James: An Informal Portrait and the acclaimed novels The Meaning of Night and The Glass of Time.