Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu

Was delighted to discover that this particular Dover edition is built to last. A "permanent book" as it says on the back. This particular order does show some wear from years of use, and contains a few markings (only on the Table of Contents). But everything is otherwise perfect. This book comes with 16 short stories, including a longer work entitled "The Haunted Baronet," which alone is probably worth the price of my purchase. I'm... Read Full Review

Le fanu is the BEST writer of supernatual fiction there is...no questions! I am the biggest fan...I collect all his works...old and new when I can find them. The stories collected here are some rare ones indeed. The Haunted Baronet (from the Golden Friars) is a stunning gem of a novellete. Included in this volume are some very hard to come by edtions. And they have been reprinted exactly from the periodicals they were originally... Read Full Review

Until the Dover edition of Sheridan Le Fanu's stories appeared in 1964, this nineteenth-century Irish author's tales were almost impossible to find. This is a shame, since M.R. James considered Le Fanu the best of all ghost story writers (I would put M.R. James at the top of my list, and J. S. Le Fanu, second). According to Jack Sullivan in "Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood," "...Nearly... Read Full Review

I have probably read this book more often than any other book on my shelves. In the creation of mood, the elaboration of motifs and their own inexorable progression beyond the veil of reality into the numinous, these tales have never been excelled. As highly respected a practitioner of the ghost story as Montague Rhodes James wrote:"He stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories. That is my deliberate... Read Full Review

The best ghost stories of J S LeFanu are among the best ghost stories ever written. This is an extremely fine collection, including all the stories from LeFanu's greatest book, "In a Glass Darkly", plus more than a dozen others. There are regional tales of the author's native Ireland; traditional tales of supernatural revenge; and, as the title says, much if not all of LeFanu's best work, which prefigures the best modern... Read Full Review