Green Tea And Other Ghost Stories

Author : J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192572837

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Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...' Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Poe and M. R. James. While a number of his sensation and mystery novels were popular with mid-Victorian readers, it was in shorter forms that he truly excelled, and most showed himself an innovator in the field of uncanny fiction. Tales such as 'Carmilla' and 'Green Tea' prompted M. R. James to remark, 'he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer'. This landmark critical edition includes the original versions of all five stories later collected in the superb In a Glass Darkly, along with seven equally chilling tales spanning the length of Le Fanu's career, from 'Schalken the Painter', a pioneering story of the walking dead, to 'Laura Silver Bell', a haunting exploration of the dark side of fairy lore. Aaron Worth's introduction discusses the paranoid, claustrophobic world of Le Fanu's fiction as a counterpoint-one in its own way equally modern-to the cosmic horror tale as practiced by such writers as H. P. Lovecraft.

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 048627795X

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Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

Four chilling tales by great Victorian master offer high craftsmanship, literary skill, psychological penetration. Title story plus Squire Toby’s Will, The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh and Sir Dominick’s Bargain. New introductory Note.

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044994270

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Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : BL:A0017534185

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Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974661121

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Carmilla, Green Tea, and Other Horrors by Anonim Pdf

His supernatural fiction was unparalleled in the Victorian Era. It inspired Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, and E. F. Benson. M. R. James was a worshipful devotee who resurrected his legacy and modeled his ghost stories after his style. Bram Stoker reworked his erotic vampire fiction to write his masterpieces, "Dracula" and "The Judge's House." J. Sheridan Le Fanu was the most influential, original, and inspirational horror writer of his time, and unlike many of his peers, his writing has not become dated or quaint: it still carries his trademark atmosphere of unsettling discomfort and uncanny fear. Le Fanu's psychological ghost stories and weird fiction are remarkable for the way in which they merge elements which should be diametrically opposed: the conscious and unconscious, life and death, heaven and hell, right and wrong, light and darkness, public self and private self. He sets his stories in a world of deep twilight -- a chiaroscuro of deep shadows broken up with faint light and vague definitions. His cosmos is unforgiving, malicious, and misanthropic: unlike Lovecraft who feared a world where mankind didn't matter, Le Fanu depicted a punishing spiritual order where every sin, every misstep, and every crime was closely watched and viciously, mercilessly punished. His murky universe is populated with demon lovers, haunted portraits, seductive ghosts, hanging judges, demonic rats, maddening visions of hell, animated corpses, sensual vampires, evil fairies, shape-shifting goblins, spectral hands, haunted candles, malevolent phantoms, and the ghosts of evil men who cozy up to the living in disturbingly intimate ways.TALES INCLUDED in this ANNOTATED EDITION:The Drunkard's Dream | The Sexton's Adventure | The Familiar | Disturbances in Aungier Street | The Ghost of a Hand | Narrative of a Haunted House | Wicked Captain Walshawe | Squire Toby's Will | Stories of Lough Guir | Madam Crowl's Ghost | Dickon the Devil | Sir Robert Ardagh | Schalken the Painter | Ultor de Lacy | Green Tea | The Child That Went with the Fairies | White Cat of Drumgunniol | Sir Dominick's Bargain | Laura Silver Bell | Carmilla | Mr Justice Harbottle

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546357742

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Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It was released in 1945 and was the author's first book to be published in the United States. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 2,026 copies. A much less extensive collection of Le Fanu stories was published under the same title by Dover Books in 1993.

Author : J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780198835882

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Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

"Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction. While a number of his sensation and mystery novels were popular with mid-Victorian readers, it was in shorter forms that he truly excelled and most showed himself an innovator in the field of uncanny fiction. Tales such as Carmilla and Green Tea prompted M. R. James to remark, 'he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer'. This landmark critical edition includes the original versions of the stories later collected in the superb In a Glass Darkly, along with equally chilling tales spanning the length of Le Fanu's career, from 'Schalken the Painter', a pioneering story of the walking dead, to 'Laura Silver Bell', a haunting exploration of the dark side of fairy lore. Aaron Worth's introduction discusses the paranoid, claustrophobic world of Le Fanu's fiction, placing the stories both the context of the author's long career and in the pantheon of writers of the uncanny"--

Author : J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Alan Rodgers Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1598187074

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Green Tea and Other Strange Tales by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

From "Green Tea": "The evil spirits associated with man are, indeed from the hells, but when with man they are not then in hell, but are taken out thence. The place where they then are, is in the midst between heaven and hell, and is called the world of spirits -- when the evil spirits who are with man, are in that world, they are not in any infernal torment, but in every thought and affection of man, and so, in all that the man himself enjoys. But when they are remitted into their hell, they return to their former state. . . ." "If evil spirits could perceive that they were associated with man, and yet that they were spirits separate from him, and if they could flow in into the things of his body, they would attempt by a thousand means to destroy him; for they hate man with a deadly hatred. . . ." "Knowing, therefore, that I was a man in the body, they were continually striving to destroy me, not as to the body only, but especially as to the soul; for to destroy any man or spirit is the very delight of the life of all who are in hell; but I have been continually protected by the Lord. Hence it appears how dangerous it is for man to be in a living consort with spirits, unless he be in the good of faith. . . ." "Nothing is more carefully guarded from the knowledge of associate spirits than their being thus conjoint with a man, for if they knew it they would speak to him, with the intention to destroy him. . . ." * Also included in this volume are "Mr. Justice Harbottle," "Madam Crowl's Ghost," and "The Dead Sexton."

Author : J. Sheridan LeFanu
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486158983

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Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories by J. Sheridan LeFanu Pdf

Four chilling tales by the great Victorian master offer high craftsmanship, literary skill, and psychological penetration. Title story plus "Squire Toby's Will," "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh," and "Sir Dominick's Bargain."

Author : Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241251652

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Green Tea by Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

'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.

Author : J Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539326403

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Carmilla, Green Tea, and Other Horrors by J Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

His supernatural fiction was unparalleled in the Victorian Era. It inspired Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, and E. F. Benson. M. R. James was a worshipful devotee who resurrected his legacy and modeled his ghost stories after his style. Bram Stoker reworked his erotic vampire fiction to write his masterpieces, "Dracula" and "The Judge's House." J. Sheridan Le Fanu was the most influential, original, and inspirational horror writer of his time, and unlike many of his peers, his writing has not become dated or quaint: it still carries his trademark atmosphere of unsettling discomfort and uncanny fear. Le Fanu's psychological ghost stories and weird fiction are remarkable for the way in which they merge elements which should be diametrically opposed: the conscious and unconscious, life and death, heaven and hell, right and wrong, light and darkness, public self and private self. He sets his stories in a world of deep twilight -- a chiaroscuro of deep shadows broken up with faint light and vague definitions. His cosmos is unforgiving, malicious, and misanthropic: unlike Lovecraft who feared a world where mankind didn't matter, Le Fanu depicted a punishing spiritual order where every sin, every misstep, and every crime was closely watched and viciously, mercilessly punished. His murky universe is populated with demon lovers, haunted portraits, seductive ghosts, hanging judges, demonic rats, maddening visions of hell, animated corpses, sensual vampires, evil fairies, shape-shifting goblins, spectral hands, haunted candles, malevolent phantoms, and the ghosts of evil men who cozy up to the living in disturbingly intimate ways.

Author : J. S. LeFanu
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486144696

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Ghost Stories and Mysteries by J. S. LeFanu Pdf

DIVRemaining supernatural fiction by writer many consider greatest ghost story writer of all time. Mystery stories are equally memorable. /div

Author : Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473377783

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An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu Pdf

This early work by Sheridan Le Fanu was originally published in 1851. Born in Dublin in 1814, he came from a literary family of Huguenot origins; both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights,

Author : Jack Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:39000005828418

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Elegant Nightmares by Jack Sullivan Pdf

Author : John Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111285

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Great Ghost Stories by John Grafton Pdf

Ten classics by masters of the macabre: Bram Stoker's "The Judge's House," "The Moonlit Road" by Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James's "The Rose Garden," Charles Dickens, and seven others.