Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Wyvern Mystery
- Cosimo Classics
- 2008
- Taschenbuch
- 324 Seiten
- ISBN 9781605203379
The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century, Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (1814-1873) has, sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so. To this day, contemporary readers who happen across his works praise his talent for weaving a tense literary atmosphere tinged by the supernatural and bolstered by hints of ambiguous magic. An exceptional example of the "sensation novel"-a genre that was wildly popular in the Victorian era, with its focus on lurid crime invading previously cheerful, ordinary, and domestic places-this 1869 classic gives us a
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