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The Room in the Dragon Volant
The Room in the Dragon Volant
The Room in the Dragon Volant
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The Room in the Dragon Volant

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This early work by Sheridan Le Fanu was originally published in 1863. 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,
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Release dateOct 21, 2015
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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).

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    'The Room at the Dragon Volant' I had read in another story collection some years ago before encountering it again in Ghost Stories and Mysteries [of J. Sheridan LeFanu]. This means I can't be sure that I was so much more suspicious than young Richard Beckett because of subconscious memories, or because I'm 40 years older and not infatuated. The year is 1815, Napoleon vanquished at Waterloo, and our reasonably rich Mr. Beckett is making his first visit to France. He first encounters the ugly old Nicholas de la Marque, Count de St. Alyre, and his beautiful countess, Eugenie, on his way to Paris. Twice he is able to help them out. He also meets the Marquis d'Harmonville, who is on a mysterious mission, and therefore going by the alias of Monsieur Droqville. Another meeting is with the boastful Colonel Gaillarde.Richard can't get the beautiful countess out of his mind. The marquis not only directs him to the inn known as Le Dragon Volant, but gives him a card to attend a masked party at the palace of Versailles. There Richard has his questions answered by an oracle known as Confu, who can even tell him the last thing the countess said to him. Richard learns more about the countess from her best friend, who sets up a meeting with the lovely lady.Richard's servant, St. Clair, has already told him about two gentlemen who had been staying at the Dragon Volant and mysteriously vanished before the eyes of the other guests. Both of them had the very room that Richard has been given.Richard runs into an English friend who introduces him to a man with the police who is able to give more details about the disappearances. (The truth is less picturesque than what St. Clair was told, but still very mysterious.)Richard winds up in dire peril, which the reader will figure out well before he does. CHAPTER NOTES (name dropping, in order of appearance, will be at the end of each chapter's notes, so check for your favorite authors, composers, songs, fictional characters, etc.):Chapter 1 Mention:: Napoleon.Chapter 3: Look here for the song about death and love that the countess sings.Chapter 5: The colonel tells how he got some of his scars here.Chapter 11 Mention:: the Wandering Jew (the fictional character, not the plant)Chapter 11 Mention:: BacchusChapter 20 Mention:: Countess d'Aulnois (Countess d'Aulnoy)Chapter 21 Mentions: Notre Dame, Conciergerie, the Palais de Justice, Sainte Chapelle, Canon Fulbert, Abelard, Eloise (Heloise)If there's any fault to this story, it's that we are hearing it from Richard as an old man. The dire peril scene is very well written, but it would have been better if we were left to wonder if he would survive, not how it would be managed.

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