

From the pen of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the undisputed master of Victorian Gothic horror and Irish supernatural fiction, comes one of his most chilling and visually haunting tales. Schalken the Painter (1839) is a brilliant early work that fuses the...

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century, and he is now seen as central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. His work is credited with turning the Gothic's focus from the external sources of horror to the inward effects...

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 - 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Three of his best known...