"Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh" is a gothic novel about an eighteen-year-old girl Maude, raised by her wealthy father, an adherent to a peculiar Scandinavian science religion. Maude grows up amid dark rumors about the character of her father's brother, the mysterious Uncle Silas. After the father's death, Maude is entrusted to her uncle's guardianship. It turns out that Silas has considerable debt. Maude realizes she is the only obstacle standing between her uncle and her father's money.

This book was written by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction who is considered the leading ghost-story writer of the Victorian era. In this publication, he uses Ireland as a backdrop for his love story that depicts class issues during the era - and a thrilling mystery that awaits to befall the characters.

Maud Ruthyn is an heiress who lives with her somber, reclusive father Austin Ruthyn in their mansion at Knowl. Through her father and her worldly, cheerful cousin, Lady Monica Knollys, she gradually learns more regarding her uncle, Silas Ruthyn, a black sheep of the family whom she has never met. Once an infamous rake and gambler, he is now apparently a fervently reformed Christian. His reputation has been tainted by the suspicious suicide of a man to whom Silas owed an enormous gambling debt, which took place within a locked, apparently impenetrable room in Silas's mansion at Bartram-Haugh.

In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five different tales, presented as selections from the posthumous papers of the occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius. The title is taken from 1 Corinthians 13:12, a deliberate misquotation of the passage which describes humanity as perceiving the world "through a glass darkly". "Green Tea" - An English clergyman named Jennings confides to Hesselius that he is being followed by a demon in the form of an ethereal monkey, invisible to everyone else, which is trying to invade his mind and destroy his life. Hesselius writes letters to a Dutch colleague about...

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu erschafft mit "Carmilla" ein herausragendes Werk des viktorianischen Schauerromans, das als einer der frühesten und einflussreichsten Vampirerzählungen der Literaturgeschichte gilt. Im Zentrum steht die geheimnisvolle Gestalt der Carmilla, deren Beziehung zur jungen Protagonistin Laura von subtiler Spannung, sinnlicher Andeutung und unterschwelligem Grauen geprägt ist. Le Fanus virtuoser Erzählstil, der sich durch dichte Atmosphäre, psychologischen Tiefgang und eine meisterhafte Nutzung von Andeutungen auszeichnet, trägt maßgeblich zur nachhaltigen Wirkung des...