This novel is a dark tale of murder, secrets, manipulation and tragic fate with several intriguing and mysterious characters. The literary style and Le Fanu's wizardry with the English language make this a must read for all fanciers of 19th century horror.

Beautifully written, with a style reminiscent of James Hogg, these horror stories are captivating by their atmospheric and chilling tales in a pure Gothic tradition.

Uncle Silas is an early example of the locked room mystery subgenre, rather than a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist, philosopher and Christian mystic. The story follows a young rich orphaned girl named Maud who is forced to move in with her poor and embarrassed uncle according to her fathers will. This man seems nice enough but there is something mysterious and menacing about this man. Maud soon realized that Uncle Silas is not the nice guy she...

This book contains two mystery novels: A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin.

Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates. This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and condensation. It will form but one volume of the series of that extraordinary man's collected papers. As I publish the case, in this volume, simply to interest the -laity, - I shall forestall the intelligent lady, who relates it, in nothing; and after due...

Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. The cause was a very trifling scratch inflicted by a dissecting knife. This trifle cost me the loss of two fingers, amputated promptly, and the more painful loss of my health, for I have never been quite well since, and have seldom been twelve months together in the same place. In my wanderings I became acquainted with Dr. Martin Hesselius, a...

On this case Doctor Hesselius has inscribed nothing more than the words, -Harman's Report, - and a simple reference to his own extraordinary Essay on -The Interior Sense, and the Conditions of the Opening thereof.- The reference is to Vol. I., Section 317, Note ZA. The note to which reference is thus made, simply says: -There are two accounts of the remarkable case of the Honourable Mr. Justice Harbottle, one furnished to me by Mrs. Trimmer, of Tunbridge Wells (June, 1805); the other at a much later date, by Anthony Harman, Esq. I much prefer the former; in the first place, because it is...

This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and condensation. It will form but one volume of the series of that extraordinary man's collected papers.