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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
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"Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh" is a gothic novel about an eighteen-year-old girl Maude, raised by her wealthy father, an adherent to a peculiar Scandinavian science religion. Maude grows up amid dark rumors about the character of her father's brother, the mysterious Uncle Silas. After the father's death, Maude is entrusted to her uncle's guardianship. It turns out that Silas has considerable debt. Maude realizes she is the only obstacle standing between her uncle and her father's money.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGood Press
Release dateNov 19, 2019
ISBN4057664113375
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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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