JamesĬonversations in a Shadowed Room: The Blank Spaces in “Green Tea”. Three Ghost Stories: “The Judge’s House”, “Some Strange Disturbances in an Old House on Aungier Street”, and “Mr. “Introduction” to The House by the Churchyard.Elizabeth Bowen “Green Tea”: The Archetypal Ghost Story.Jack Sullivanįorgotten Creator of Ghosts-Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Possible Inspirer of the Brontës.Edna Kenton “A Regular Contributor”: Le Fanu’s Short Stories, All the Year Round, and the Influence of Dickens.Simon CookeĪ Shared Vision: Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr.Gary W. Lovecraft’s Response to the Work of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.Jim Rockhill Sheridan Le Fanu and the Spirit of 1798.Albert Power Le Fanu’s House by the Marketplace.Wayne Hall Making Light in the Shadow Box: The Artistry of Le Fanu.Kel Roop Jamesĭoubles, Shadows, Sedan-Chairs, and the Past: “The Ghost Stories of J.S. “Prologue” and “Epilogue” to Madam Crowl’s Ghost.M. Showersįrom The Supernatural in Fiction.Peter Penzoldt AndersonĪ Void Which Cannot Be Filled Up: The Obituaries of J.
William Le FanuĪnecdotes from Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu and Others.S. Alfred Perceval GravesĮxcerpt from 70 Years of Irish Life. Litton FalkinerĪ Memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. INTRODUCTION.Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers Together they edit the scholarly online journal Le Fanu Studies. Showers is a fiction writer and literary historian, and the co-compiler (with Gary William Crawford) of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: A Concise Bibliography. Jim Rockhill is the editor of the complete supernatural fiction of Le Fanu. Gary William Crawford is a widely published poet, scholar, and fiction writer, and compiler of a bibliography of Le Fanu. All in all, this book provides a definitive guide to the weird fiction of Le Fanu. Nine of these essays are printed here for the first time. Recent essays by Jack Sullivan, John Langan, Victor Sage, and many others discuss a wide array of topics relating to Le Fanu’s writing. Early reviews of his many books are reprinted, as is important early criticism by M. A biographical section features memoirs of Le Fanu along with reproductions of many portraits of the author. In this volume, the first collection of essays about Le Fanu, three distinguished scholars have amassed a wealth of material on every aspect of the author’s life, work, and influence. Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) is one of the leading weird writers of the nineteenth century, the author of “Green Tea,” “Carmilla,” Uncle Silas, and other classic works. Edited by Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill and Brian J. ShowersĢ011 BRAM STOKER AWARD® NOMINEE: Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
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