Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots. The children were tutored but, according to his brother William, the tutor taught them little if anything. Le Fanu was eager to learn and used his father's library to educate himself about the world. He was a creative child and by fifteen had taken to writing poetry. Accepted into Trinity College, Dublin to study law he also benefited from the system used in Ireland that he did not have to live in Dublin to attend lectures, but could...

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.

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

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...