Some time within the first ten years of the last century, there stood in the fair city of Dublin, and in one of those sinuous and narrow streets which lay in the immediate...
In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss. A small income, in that part of the world, goes a great way. Eight or nine hundred a year does...
Silas's past holds a dark mystery: the suspicious suicide of a man to whom Silas owed an enormous gambling debt, which took place within a locked, apparently impenetrable room in...
The curious case which I am about to place before you, is referred to, very pointedly, and more than once, in the extraordinary Essay upon the drugs of the Dark and the Middle...
Within the last eight years—the precise date I purposely omit—I I was ordered by my physician, my health being in an unsatisfactory state, to change my residence to one upon...
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...
"The Child that Went with the Fairies" is a short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales...
The pretty little town of Golden Friars—standing by the margin of the lake, hemmed round by an amphitheatre of purple mountain, rich in tint and furrowed by ravines, high in...
"Dickon the Devil" is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic...
Dickon é um louco que vaga nos arredores de uma mansão assombrada, de paisagem lúgubre. Após presenciar a aparição do fantasma de um morto, Dickon fica totalmente sem juízo...