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Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was a leading writer of ghost stories in the Victorian era. The son of a Dean of the Church of Ireland, as a teenager he experienced first-hand the disturbances of the Tithe War, [11] a protest against the policy of enforcing tithes on the Roman Catholic majority for the upkeep of the Church of Ireland.
If a bluebook story was not long enough to fill the allotted page length, publishers had versions of shorter stories on hand that they would attach to the end. [2] One story that was commonly attached was "Mary, A Fragment", [9] which was just one page long. Gothic bluebooks remained a popular trade through the first decade of the 19th century. [5]
The Poor Clare is a short story by English Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell.First serialised in three installments in 1856 Charles Dickens' popular magazine Household Words, [1] The Poor Clare is a gothic ghost story [2] about a young woman unwittingly cursed by her own grandmother.
Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu.Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike.
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian-era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest.It first appeared in 1845–1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls".
A story of romantic love, esp. one which deals with love in a sentimental or idealized way; a book, film, etc., with a narrative or story of this kind. Also as mass noun: literature of this kind. Overlap is also sometimes found between the above terms, when literary romance also contains a strong love interest.
M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) Elfriede Jelinek, Die Kinder der Toten (1995) Rikard Jorgovanić, Love upon the Catafalque (1876), Dada (1878) and A Wife and a Lover (1878)