Carmilla And Other Pleasing Terrors - Sheridan Le Fanu

Before Dracula there was Carmilla, the queen of the sapphic vampires, created by the Irish author J.S. Le Fanu. Carmilla (1872) is a landmark in vampire fiction, the character portrayed in numerous horror films, most notably Hammer’s The Vampire Lovers. The similarities between Carmilla and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) are striking, with Le Fanu’s Baron Vordenburg anticipating Stoker’s Van Helsing, while Carmilla is another undead sexually magnetic aristocrat posing as a descendant of herself.

Le Fanu was a Victorian master of gothic, mystery, and supernatural fiction, and the father of the modern ghost story. As M.R. James wrote of him, ‘I do not think that there are better ghost stories anywhere than the best of Le Fanu’s.’ This collection brings together Le Fanu’s greatest short stories, full of horror, intrigue, Irish folklore, and gallows humour, all building towards his masterpiece, Carmilla, the chilling tale of a beautiful girl who came to stay… There are also explanatory notes, original publication details, suggested reading, an original introduction, and an essay on Le Fanu by his admirer and natural heir, M.R. James.

Contents:

The Ghost and The Bone Setter

The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh

The Drunkard’s Dream

Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess

Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter

Jim Sulivan’s Adventures in the
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