The Watcher and Other Weird Stories


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A captain on the run from his demons...literally! A trapped countess fights for her life in an unfamiliar estate. A love-struck painter searches to save his love against the mysterious suitor that stole her. And more! The Watcher and Other Weird Stories contains six Victorian cautionary tales. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu shines the light on not only the shadows in the cobblestone alleys but the shadows in the human soul. This is a fine new edition to the classic collection by one of the early masters of supernatural horror with a new foreword by Sam Knight! Bring your lantern, check your windows and paintings. You’ll love diving into these old haunts!




The Watcher and Other Weird Stories


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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Watcher and Other Weird Stories” is a collection of beautifully written tales of the uncanny, including “The Watcher” itself and five other alluring, fascinating stories like “The Dream” and “A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family.”







The Watcher, and other weird stories


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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories".




The Watcher and Other Weird Stories


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The Watcher and other weird stories Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu




The Watcher and Other Weird Stories


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"The Watcher and other weird stories" from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814-1873).




Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales


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Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his death, and The Lair of the White Worm, an intensely intriguing novel of myths, legends and unspeakable evil, demonstrate the full range of his horror writing. From the petrifying open tomb in 'Dracula's Guest' to the mental breakdown depicted in 'The Judge's House' and 'Crooken Sands', these terrifying tales of the uncanny explore the boundaries between life and death, known and unknown, animal and human, dream and reality.







Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery


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"Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories" is a collection of supernatural tales written by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. The book includes a variety of eerie and haunting stories such as "Madam Crowl's Ghost," "Squire Toby's Will," "Dickon the Devil," "The Child That Went with the Fairies," "The White Cat of Drumgunniol," "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street," "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod" (featuring "The Village Bully," "The Sexton's Adventure," "The Specter Lovers"), "Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling," "Sir Dominick's Bargain," "Ultor de Lacy," "The Vision of Tom Chuff," and Stories of Lough Guir'' including "The Magician Earl," "Moll Rial's Adventure," "The Banshee," "The Governess's Dream," and "The Earl's Hall"