Ghosts and Marvels

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Let us be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first and then more insistently, until it holds the stage.
M R James: Introduction for Ghosts and Marvels (1924)

Let The Ominous Thing......

Come this way..........

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (August 28, 1814 - February 7, 1873) was an Irish writer of short stories and novels concerning the strange and supernatural. His work is an early example of the genre of horror fiction.Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin to a noble family. His grandmother Alice Sheridan Le Fanu and her brother, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (J. Sheridan Le Fanu's great-uncle), were both playwrights. His niece, Rhoda Broughton, would become a very successful novelist.Le Fanu studied law at Trinity College in Dublin, where he was elected Auditor of the Historical Society, and passed the bar 1839. But Le Fanu did not take up the legal profession, instead becoming a journalist. Thenceforth until his death he published stories. From 1861--1869, he edited Dublin University Magazine, which also published many of his works in serial form. He owned several periodicals (including the Dublin University Magazine and the Dublin Evening Mail) in his late life. He died in his native Dublin on February 7, 1873

"Upon mature consideration, I do not think that there are better ghost stories anywhere than the best of Le Fanu's"
- M.R. James on J.S. LeFanu

The Authors

1845-1925

1837-1915

1840-1920
niece of J.S. le Fanu

1854-1909

1812-1870

1859-1930

1831-1892

Pseudonym of
Violet Paget
1865-1935

1814-1873

1868-1947

1873-1961

1866-1946

The Tales

Vernon Lee

Amelia B. Edwards

Rhoda Broughton

Marie Belloc Lowndes

J.S. Le Fanu
 

Louisa Baldwin

J.S. Le Fanu

Amelia B. Edwards

Oliver Onions

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

Charles Dickens 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Marie Belloc Lowndes

or Oke of Okehurst
Vernon Lee

Louisa Baldwin
 

Sie Arthur Conan Doyle

F. Marion Crawford

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Charles Dickens

F. Marion Crawford

Rhoda Broughton

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