Green Tea: and Other Weird Stories

Author:   J. Sheridan Le Fanu ,  Aaron Worth (Associate Professor, Rhetoric, Boston University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198835882


Pages:   544
Publication Date:   25 June 2020
Format:   Paperback
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'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...'Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Poe and M. R. James. While a number of his sensation and mystery novels were popular with mid-Victorian readers, it was in shorter forms that he truly excelled, and most showed himself an innovator in the field of uncanny fiction. Tales such as 'Carmilla' and 'Green Tea' prompted M. R. James to remark, 'he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer'. This landmark critical edition includes the original versions of all five stories later collected in the superb In a Glass Darkly, along with seven equally chilling tales spanning the length of Le Fanu's career, from 'Schalken the Painter', a pioneering story of the walking dead, to 'Laura Silver Bell', a haunting exploration of the dark side of fairy lore. Aaron Worth's introduction discusses the paranoid, claustrophobic world of Le Fanu's fiction as a counterpoint-one in its own way equally modern-to the cosmic horror tale as practiced by such writers as H. P. Lovecraft.

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Author:   J. Sheridan Le Fanu ,  Aaron Worth (Associate Professor, Rhetoric, Boston University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 19.50cm
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9780198835882


ISBN 10:   0198835884
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   25 June 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Note on The Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Sheridan Le Fanu The Ghost and the Bonesetter The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh The Drunkard's Dream A Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family The Mysterious Lodger Spalatro: From the Notes of Fra Giacomo Ghost Stories of Chapelizod An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street Ultor de Lacy An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House Ghost Stories of the Tiled House Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling Squire Toby's Will Madam Crowl's Ghost The Haunted Baronet The Vision of Tom Chuff Stories of Lough Guir The White Cat of Drumgunniol The Child that Went with the Fairies Laura Silver Bell Sir Dominick's Bargain Dickon the Devil Green Tea The Familiar Mr Justice Harbottle The Room in the Dragon Volant Carmilla Explanatory Notes

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Aaron Worth is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, author of Imperial Media (2014), and editor of The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen (OUP 2018). His writing has also appeared in The Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and leading scholarly journals including Victorian Studies. He is also an active member of the Horror Writers Association, with fiction appearing in, most recently, Vastarien and Cemetery Dance.

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