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Short Fiction

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

BOOK TYPE
Short fiction
READING TIME
About 30.4 hours
WORDS
364,154
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A collection of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s short fiction, including some of his famous ghost stories, gothic horror and sensation.

Short fiction

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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. The Ghost and the Bonesetter
  4. The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh
  5. The Last Heir of Castle Connor
  6. The Drunkard’s Dream
  7. Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
  8. The Bridal of Carrigvarah
  9. Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
  10. Scraps of Hibernian Ballads
  11. Jim Sulivan’s Adventures in the Great Snow
  12. A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family
    1. Introduction
  13. An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain
  14. “The Quare Gander”
  15. Spalatro
    1. Part I
    2. Part II
  16. The Fatal Bride
  17. The Mysterious Lodger
    1. Part I
    2. Part II
  18. Billy Malowney’s Taste of Love and Glory
  19. Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
    1. The Village Bully
    2. The Sexton’s Adventure
    3. The Spectre Lovers
  20. Some Gossip About Chapelizod
  21. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
  22. Ultor de Lacy
    1. I: The Jacobite’s Legacy
    2. II: The Fairies in the Castle
    3. III: The Priest’s Adventures in the Glen
    4. IV: The Light in the Bell Tower
    5. V: The Man with the Claret Mark
    6. VI: Voices
    7. VII: Una’s Love
    8. VIII: Sister Agnes and the Portrait
  23. Borrhomeo the Astrologer
  24. An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
  25. My Aunt Margaret’s Adventure
    1. I: Aunt Margaret at Home
    2. II: My Aunt Margaret on the Road
    3. III: The Moon Rises
    4. IV: Perturbation
    5. V: The Good Woman
    6. VI: The White Chamber
    7. VII: An Accident Befalls the Candle
    8. VIII: Of a Figure Seen by My Aunt
    9. IX: The Funeral Visitation
    10. X: How It All Happened
  26. Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling
    1. I: Peg O’Neill Pays the Captain’s Debts
    2. II: The Blessed Candle
    3. III: My Uncle Watson Visits Wauling
    4. IV: In the Parlour
    5. V: The Bedchamber
    6. VI: The Extinguisher Is Lifted
    7. VII: The Visitation Culminates
    8. Conclusion
  27. Squire Toby’s Will
  28. Green Tea
    1. Prologue
    2. I: Dr. Hesselius Relates How He Met the Rev. Mr. Jennings
    3. II: The Doctor Questions Lady Mary, and She Answers
    4. III: Dr. Hesselius Picks Up Something in Latin Books
    5. IV: Four Eyes Were Reading the Passage
    6. V: Doctor Hesselius Is Summoned to Richmond
    7. VI: How Mr. Jennings Met His Companion
    8. VII: The Journey: First Stage
    9. VIII: The Second Stage
    10. IX: The Third Stage
    11. X: Home
    12. Conclusion
  29. The Child That Went with the Fairies
  30. The White Cat of Drumgunniol
  31. Stories of Lough Guir
    1. The Magician Earl
    2. Moll Rial’s Adventure
    3. The Banshee
    4. The Governess’s Dream
    5. The Earl’s Hall
  32. The Vision of Tom Chuff
  33. Madam Crowl’s Ghost
  34. Carmilla
    1. Prologue
    2. I: An Early Fright
    3. II: A Guest
    4. III: We Compare Notes
    5. IV: Her Habits—A Saunter
    6. V: A Wonderful Likeness
    7. VI: A Very Strange Agony
    8. VII: Descending
    9. VIII: Search
    10. IX: The Doctor
    11. X: Bereaved
    12. XI: The Story
    13. XII: A Petition
    14. XIII: The Woodman
    15. XIV: The Meeting
    16. XV: Ordeal and Execution
    17. XVI: Conclusion
  35. The Dead Sexton
  36. Mr. Justice Harbottle
    1. Prologue
    2. I: The Judge’s House
    3. II: Mr. Peters
    4. III: Lewis Pyneweck
    5. IV: Interruption in Court
    6. V: Caleb Searcher
    7. VI: Arrested
    8. VII: Chief Justice Twofold
    9. VIII: Somebody Has Got Into the House
    10. IX: The Judge Leaves His House
  37. The Familiar
    1. Prologue
    2. I: Footsteps
    3. II: The Watcher
    4. III: An Advertisement
    5. IV: He Talks with a Clergyman
    6. V: Mr. Barton States His Case
    7. VI: Seen Again
    8. VII: Flight
    9. VIII: Softened
    10. IX: Requiescat
  38. Sir Dominick’s Bargain
  39. Laura Silver Bell
  40. Dickon the Devil
  41. Hyacinth O’Toole
  42. Endnotes
  43. Colophon
  44. Uncopyright

Edition & source

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SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE
2025-07-02
SOURCE EDITION UPDATED
2026-08-04
ADDED TO iREADALL
2026-10-13
Edition contributors
  • The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
  • J. Sheridan Le Fanu (ann, aut)
  • Willem Kalf (art)
  • David Widger (trc)
  • Andrea Ball (trc)
  • Christine Bell (trc)
  • Marc D’Hooghe (trc)
  • Suzanne Shell (trc)
  • eagkw (trc)
  • The Online Distributed Proofreading Team (trc)
  • Mary Meehan (trc)
  • Project Gutenberg Beginners Projects (trc)
  • Riikka Talonpoika (trc)
  • Gregory Margo (trc)
  • Christopher Hapka (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, trc, tyg)
  • Kenneth Williams (cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
  • Lukas Bystricky (pfr)
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