Tales of the Supernatural

Written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by Roy Macready

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 – 1873) was born in Dublin, Ireland and is acknowledged as an influential writer in the genre of gothic and supernatural fiction of the nineteenth century. Many of his short stories were originally published severally in various magazines. Here are six of them:

“The White Cat of Drumgonnial”
“Dickon the Devil”
“The Drunkard's Dream”
“The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts”
“The Vision of Tom Chuff”
“An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Big Happy Family
• Release date: Nov 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9781094249797

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic horror. Born in Dublin, Le Fanu was raised in a literary family. His mother, a biographer, and his father, a clergyman, encouraged his intellectual development from a young age. He began writing poetry at fifteen and went on to excel at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied law and served as Auditor of the College Historical Society. In 1838, shortly before he was called to the bar, he began contributing ghost stories to Dublin University Magazine, of which he later became editor and proprietor. He embarked on a career as a writer and journalist, using his role at the magazine as a means of publishing his own fictional work. Le Fanu made a name for himself as a pioneer of mystery and Gothic horror with such novels as The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864). Carmilla (1872), a novella, is considered an early work of vampire fiction and an important influence for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).