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 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...

"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...

"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...

An unwanted guest visiting an isolated home is murdered. A dark tale of secrets, manipulation and tragic fate with many intriguing and mysterious characters.

My mother died when I was an infant, and of her I have no recollection, even the faintest. By her death my education was left solely to the direction of my surviving parent. He...

"Stories of Lough Guir" is a short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery...

"Carmilla" is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years.Joseph...

In the five Northumbrian counties you will scarcely find so bleak, ugly, and yet, in a savage way, so picturesque a moor as Dardale Moss. The moor itself spreads north, south,...