A nobleman strikes an agreement he will soon regret. A drunk man receives a startling vision of life after death. A struggling painter's apprentice falls in love with his master's niece, only to see her given in marriage to an older, wealthier man. Mysterious and Horrific Stories is a collection of Gothic tales by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
Laura and her father live quietly in a castle in the middle of a thick forest, but their lives change when beautiful, strange Carmilla becomes their guest. People start dying, and Laura also becomes ill. Laura’s father is worried. Will his daughter die too? Or can the deaths be stopped?
'A ghastly groan and a shudder..' From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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 wonders. Scantily enough ours would have answered among wealthy people at home. My father is English, and I bear an English name, although I never saw England. But here, in this lonely and primitive place, where everything is so marvelously cheap, I really don't see how ever so much more money would at all materially add to our comforts, or even luxuries.My father was in the Austrian service, and retired upon a pension and his patrimony, and purchased this feudal residence, and the small estate on which it stands, a bargain.Nothing can be more picturesque or solitary.
The very best of Le Fanu's supernatural fiction, including such classics as: 'Schalken the Painter', 'Squire Toby's Will', 'Mr Justice Harbottle', 'The Familiar', 'Green Tea', 'Madam Crowl's Ghost' and 'The Murdered Cousin', introduced by genre expert Michael Cox.
Originally published in 1845 with the subtitle "A Chronicle of Old Dublin City," this edition appeared in1895 with illustrations by the author's son.
GWARANCJA GROZY NA NAJWYŻSZYM POZIOMIE Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) to irlandzki klasyk literatury grozy. Dziś najbardziej znany jest z powieści „Stryj Silas” i noweli „Carmilla” ze zbioru „W ciemnym zwierciadle” - uznawanej za niedościgniony wzór w literaturze wampirycznej. Jednak to wydany w 1923 roku, pół wieku po śmierci pisarza, tom „Duch pani Crowl” sprawił, że od tej pory nieprzerwanie wznawiane są jego powieści i opowiadania. A wszystko za sprawą samego M. R. Jamesa - autora „Opowieści starego antykwariusza” - który ten tom przygotował i zarekomendował wielbicielom opowieści o duchach. Niniejsza edycja jest uzupełnieniem tego, legendarnego już, zbioru. Zawiera historię o malarzu Shalkenie - zdaniem wielu czytelników najlepszą opowieść grozy w dorobku Le Fanu. I sześć innych historii o bardzo dziwnych zdarzeniach…